Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income clients, including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services. There have been few studies on the ...

This study highlights drought characteristics and the long-term and short-term responses to drought stresses employed by Shebelley pastoralists of Fafan zone, Somali region. To achieve the objectives of this study, ...

Government policy strategies, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are aimed at increasing agricultural productivity, which could lead to improved household food security and increased farm income. In Ethiopia, ...

The importance of agricultural technology in enhancing the welfares of farmers can be realized when yield gain from the technologies results in meaningful income gain. This xv thesis aimed at analyzing adoption and ...

Agroforestry is integrated land use systems where by woody perennials and herbaceous crops and/ animals are grown on a land management unit. The study attempted to evaluate the degree of factors and major problems influencing ...

Climate smart agriculture is an approach that minimizes the adverse effects of climate change by increasing production, strengthening adaptation, and providing mitigation to smallholder farmers. This study was initiated ...

Wheat yield is low in Ethiopia. Adoption of high yielding wheat varieties is one of the measures presumed to enhance wheat yield in the country. However, there are several socioeconomic and institutional factors that ...

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important vegetable categorized under tuber crops. Potatoes are the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat and the leading vegetable crop in ...

In Fedis Woreda the production of sorghum crop ranks 1st from the other cereals cultivated. Due to this reason, different improved sorghum varieties adaptation was done; however, the trend of varietal exchange within the ...

Achieving national food security and diversifying export earnings from agricultural products is one of the major challenges currently facing developing countries like Ethiopia. Pulse crops in general and soya bean in ...