Climate change affects crop productivity in most parts of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This challenge is expected as a major threat to crop production in central Ethiopia. The major purpose of the study ...

Bread wheat is a major cereal crop in Ethiopia and in the study area, but its yield is limited due to minimum use of improved varieties, diseases, weeds, low soil fertility and lack of location specific fertilizer ...

Potato is the second most important and co-staple crop in eastern Ethiopia. However, the average tuber yield is low as compared to the potential yield of the crop. The use of proper types and rates of fertilizer is one of ...

Bread wheat is one of important food crop in the study area, but its productivity is limited by poor soil fertility. Thus, the study was conducted to investigate the effect of blended NPS fertilizer rates on yield and ...

At Fincha’aa sugarcane plantation, the whole part of the cane is used for planting. However, this has affected cane establishment, yield and profit for cane production. Therefore, this study was designed to identify cane ...

two pot and one field experiments were conducted in 2013 and 2014 to determine mineral nutrition of parthenium compost and fresh residue by different composting techniques and application methods in combination with NP ...

Maize (zea mays L) is one of the most important cereal crops grown in Ethiopia. Field experiment was undertaken on clay loam soil at Teppi national spice research center, Ethiopia during 2013/2014 cropping season with ...

Maize is the major food crop in western Ethiopia and is produced in a number of agro- ecologies. However, its productivity is constrained by erratic and low amount of rain fall and little availability of high yielding ...

Production of animal feed as a sole crop is almost impossible in most part of Ethiopia, particularly in the study area due to land shortage. Realizing the potential of intercropping to address this problem, a field ...

Bread wheat is one of the most important cereal crops produced in Mao-komo (Benishangul Gumuz). However, appropriate management practice that combines integrated application of organic and inorganic fertilizer is lacking ...