Finger millet is the sixth most important cereal crop in Ethiopia in total area and production. Nonetheless, the unavailability of efficient and adequate number of threshing machine are the most serious constraints in ...

Ethiopian agriculture is dominated by a smallholder farming system, where the farmers rely on traditional farming method, which is labor-intensive and prone to drudgery. Appropriate mechanization should replace human ...

Favabean threshing, in Ethiopia at present, is predominantly done by employing animals to trample the crop on the ground. Traditional methods of threshing favabean require high man-hours, cause fatigue to workers, have ...

Coffee (Coffee Arabica) is a non-alcoholic stimulating beverage of the Rubiacae family and the genus Coffea. It is well known that Ethiopia is one of the countries that produces, consume, and export Coffee and generates ...

Production activities including harvesting and post-harvest handling of the common beans need great attention to ensure the abundance of the product both in quality and quantity for enhancing food security and income ...

Feed mixing machines are used in feed mills for the mixing of feed ingredients and premixes. Livestock production is lagging in efficiency thus resulting in low production output Because of lack of feeding system. ...

Sugarcane is an important crop worldwide due to its nutritional and economic uses. The Ethiopian government developed a path way to prosperity and strategy for ten years to boost agricultural productions. From the ...

Soil acidity becomes a serious threat to crop production in most highlands of Ethiopia particularly in Western parts of Oromia. Frequent tillage, removal of crop residues and mono-cropping and heavy rainfall contributes ...

Effect of four primary tillage implements on soil transient physical properties were evaluated on clay, silty clay and clay loam soils. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of the tillage implements on ...