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  • Africa RISING field days showcase enhancements in crop and forage yields in the Ethiopian highlands

    December 23, 2019 Editor 0

    In the last quarter of each year,
    an Africa RISING project being conducted in the highlands of Ethiopia, holds
    series of field days there. This project is conducting research-for-development
    activities to narrow gaps in farmer yields of crops and livestock feeds. These
    field days, which included ‘experience sharing programs’, were held in four of
    Ethiopia’s nine regional states—Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and the Southern
    Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR)—in Nov and Dec 2019.

    Behafta in her fodder beet plot
    Behafta in her fodder beet plot. Photo credit: Apollo Habtamu/ILRI

    Senior officials from the four
    regions, ministry of agriculture, research centers, Universities, development
    agencies, nongovernmental organizations, media and zonal and district
    administrations as well as local farmers participated in the field days, which showcased
    African RISING activities to improve crop performance, seed multiplication, and
    use of livestock feed and forage technologies in Endamhoni, Basona, Sinana and
    Lemo sites.

    The field days helped promote
    information exchange and technology transfer among farmers and other stakeholders
    in agricultural development in these regions. The farmers participating in the
    field days benefited from being linked up with local food and feed processors. Farmers
    in Endamehoni benefited from an advanced seed multiplication system for improved
    wheat, faba bean and barley varieties; good practices in participatory varietal
    selection; technologies for better integration of crop growing and livestock
    raising; and livestock feed trials.

    Mohammed Ebrahim, the Endamhoni
    site coordinator for this project, briefly explained to all those participating
    in his field day the various trials being conducted and the specific crop and
    forage varieties being tested; he covered best practices in land preparation, planting,
    seed and fertilizer applications and weeding.  

    Field day in Tsibet Tigray
    Farmers field day in Tsibet, Tigray. Photo credit: Apollo Habtamu/ILRI

    The field day at Basona, in the Amhara
    region, showcased a wider variety of activities and technologies, including large-scale
    seed multiplication of wheat and barley. The participants visited farm
    households employing, and benefiting from, improved livestock feed troughs and technologies,
    which are yielding better managed animals for live sales and dairy products. And
    they had an opportunity to visit the local Angolela Milk Cooperative Union.

    ‘In the past, I used local seeds
    from my own crops or bought them from a neighbor’, said Mr. Getaneh Temtem a
    farmer in Basona. ‘The yield from those local varieties were unsatisfactory. Now
    I use “wonye” wheat improved variety that I obtained from the Africa RISING project
    and the yield and biomass is very impressive.’

    Improved varieties of avocado and
    better methods for producing ‘enset’ (false banana) were showcased in the field
    day at the Lemo site in SNNPR. At this site, the Africa RISING project had introduced
      water
    ponds and solar pumps. Use of these irrigation technologies led not only to increased
    smallholder incomes but also to use of improved crop varieties. Farmers who
    produce wheat in cluster [cluster approach is an initiative that contains
    geographically specialized priority commodities across the four major
    agricultural regions of the country). These clusters are intended to act as
    Centers of Excellence where regions will be supported to maximize production
    and productivity] and produce varieties of seed for multiplication shared their
    experiences with other farmers. The cluster approach helps to produce quality
    seeds, enhance collective action and facilitate use of mechanization.

    This series of end-of-year Africa
    RISING field days ended at the Sinana site, which is known for its high wheat
    production. Participants were shown on-farm adaptation trials of forage crops,
    wheat seed multiplication and soil fertility trials.

    Haji nur Haji Adem in his wheat farm
    Haji Adem in his wheat farm Bale, Oromia Photo credit: Apollo Habtamu/ILRI

    At the close of the field days,
    Kindu Mekonnen, coordinator of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian
    highlands, called on the farmers to continue their adoption of these new and
    research-validated technologies and on government and other officials to scale up
    their use so as to benefit more farmers in wider areas.

    Click here
    to watch videos produced by local media houses of the field day activities in
    each of the regions.


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