Released Crop Varieties and their Packages in Western Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia

Kindeya, Yirga Belay and Baraki, Fiseha and Berhe, Muez and Chernet, Shishay and Zibelo, Haile and G/gergis, Zenawi and G/gergis, G/medhin and Teame, Goitom and Tadese, Hagos and Hidru, Desawi and Amare, Mizan and Hadgu, Gebre and G/maryam, Gebrelibanos (2019) Released Crop Varieties and their Packages in Western Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia. Asian Journal of Research in Crop Science, 3 (3). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2581-7167

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Abstract

North western and Western zone of Tigray are the most suitable for agricultural mechanization and investment for different crops such as sesame, cotton, sorghum, Mungbean and other. Now days different investments and agro-industries are emerging to consume and process the agricultural products and this is a good opportunity for the crop producers. This new emerging industrial parks helps to produce quality products, value-add process, to get reasonable price, to introduce modern agriculture and agricultural mechanization. The Humera type sesame is one of the branded white seeded sesame in the world, meets the world criteria; it has high demand in the world market for different purposes. In northern Ethiopia, sesame is producing purely organic and it is very essential for different international and domestic purposes. Humera agricultural research Center released different crop varieties under wide commercial production in different agro-ecologies of Ethiopia such as sesame; Setit-1(2011), Setit-2 (2016), Setit-3 (2017), Humera-1 (2011) and Mungbean (Arkebe, 2014), Okra (Bamya-Humera in2016), Tomato (Tekeze-1, 2016) for low land areas of northern Ethiopia and other similar agro-ecology of the country. Those released crop varieties are under wide commercial production and small-scale farmers in northern Ethiopia and producing for export, agro-industrial purposes and local consumption.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Research Scholar Guardian > Agricultural and Food Science
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Date Deposited: 24 Apr 2023 07:05
Last Modified: 01 Mar 2024 03:56
URI: http://science.sdpublishers.org/id/eprint/506

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