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Kebede Ewonetu Mengistu Melese Serda Biresaw 《Tropical animal health and production》2018,50(6):1379-1386
Tropical Animal Health and Production - Modern livestock health care is still at its lowest stage in Ethiopia and most modern veterinary services like drugs and veterinary professionals are not... 相似文献
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Collective action, on communal grazing land, has evolved in the highlands of northwestern Ethiopia to mitigate the problems of feed shortage and land degradation due to overgrazing. The exercise is liked by farmers for improving the availability of natural pasture during the long dry season when other feed sources get depleted. However, large portions of the communal grazing lands are still managed under free grazing throughout the year. This study was undertaken in Maynet village in the upper Blue Nile basin, northwestern Ethiopia, to assess the impacts of three different types of grazing land management (GLM) and two slope gradients (<10%; 15–25%) on aboveground herbaceous biomass yield, ground cover, species richness, runoff, soil loss and soil bulk density of grazing lands. The GLMs include (a) freely open communal GLM, (b) restricted communal GLM – collective management of communal grazing land locally named as ‘yebere sar’ and (c) private holding GLM. Stocking density was more than carrying capacity of grazing lands across all GLMs. However, the extent of overstocking problem was exceptionally severe in freely open communal GLM. The interaction between GLM and slope was significant (P<0.05) for runoff, soil loss and runoff coefficient. The average runoff coefficient was close to 50% in freely open communal GLM on steeper slopes (15–25%). Freely open communal GLM on steeper slopes resulted in consistently highest cumulative runoff and soil loss amounting to 491 mm and 32 t/ha per year, respectively. Polynomial regression analysis showed that quadratic relationship (r2=0.87) existed between soil loss and runoff. But, soil loss was close to nil when runoff did not exceed 2 mm per rainfall event. As expected, restricted communal GLM appeared to reduce surface runoff by more than 40% and curb the rate of soil erosion by more than 50% compared to freely open communal GLM. Its vegetation cover persisted above 70% throughout the year, meeting the threshold level recommended to keep surface runoff and soil loss to minimum. Reducing the problem of overstocking and pasture resting in August–November are important components to improve ground cover and aboveground herbaceous biomass yield, which in turn reduce land degradation on grazing lands. 相似文献
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Kebebew Assefa Seyfu Ketema Hailu Tefera Henry T. Nguyen Abraham Blum Mulu Ayele Guihua Bai Belay Simane Tiruneh Kefyalew 《Euphytica》1999,106(1):87-97
Three hundred twenty germplasm lines of the major Ethiopian cereal, tef, [ Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter], were evaluated
for 20 morphological, phenological and agronomic characters in two-replicated randomized complete blocks at Debre Zeit and
Melkassa Agricultural Research Centers in Ethiopia during the 1995 main season. The objectives were to assess the diversity
of the lines, and to estimate the broad sense heritability (H) and genetic advance (GA) of the various characters. The mean
squares of genotypes were highly significant (p ≤ 0.001) for all the traits. The phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of
variation ranged in that order from about 6–40% and 3–23% for days to maturity and grain yield/plant, and days to maturity
and number of spikelets/main shoot panicle, respectively. The cluster analysis grouped the genotypes into 14 major complexes
consisting of one to 183 lines. Of the 19 principal components involved in explaining the entire variation among the genotypes
the first five which had eigenvalues of more than one explained about 73.8%. The first principal component which accounted
for about 34% of the total variance was due chiefly to plant height, culm and panicle length, diameters of the two basal culm
internodes, main shoot panicle mass and grain yield, number of main shoot panicle branches and spikelets, and days to panicle
emergence and maturity. Estimates of H varied from about 22% for length of the lowest main shoot stem internode to 74% for
number of main shoot panicle branches. Values of GA (expected from selection of the superior 5% of the lines and expressed
relative to the means) ranged from about 3% for days to maturity to 36% for number of spikelets/main shoot panicle. Overall,
the study indicated the existence of trait diversity in tef germplasm and this can be exploited in the genetic improvement
of the crop through hybridization and selection.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Baniya Anil Joseph Soumi Duncan Larry Crow William Mengistu Tesfamariam 《European journal of plant pathology / European Foundation for Plant Pathology》2021,161(2):439-452
European Journal of Plant Pathology - Sex determination is a key developmental event in all organisms. The pathway that regulates sexual fate has been well characterized at the molecular level in... 相似文献
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Ayele Shashie Urge Mengistu Animut Getachew Yusuf Mohammed 《Tropical animal health and production》2019,51(1):187-198
Tropical Animal Health and Production - A study was conducted to compare carcass and noncarcass yield, carcass composition, conformation, and fat depot partitioning of three Ethiopian fat-tailed... 相似文献
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Daniel Mengistu Woldeamlak Bewket Rattan Lal 《Land Degradation \u0026amp; Development》2016,27(6):1603-1621
This study analyzes effects of soil and water conservation (SWC) on soil quality and implications to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Upper Blue Nile River Basin of Ethiopia by using the Anjeni watershed as a case study site. Disturbed and undisturbed soil samples were collected from two sub‐watersheds of Anjeni: the Minchet sub‐watershed (with SWC measures) and the Zikrie sub‐watershed (without SWC measures). Soil samples were taken from 30‐cm depth from five representative landscape positions and analyzed following the standard soil lab analysis procedures. The results show that soils from the conserved sub‐watershed had improved quality indicators compared with those from the non‐conserved site. Significant improvement due to SWC measures was observed in the soil hydrological [total moisture content (+5·43%), field capacity (+5·35%), and available water capacity (+4·18%)] and chemical [cation exchange capacity (+4·40 cmol(+) kg−1), Mg2+ (+1·90 cmol(+) kg−1), Na+ (+0·10 cmol(+) kg−1)] properties. SWC interventions significantly reduced soil erosion by 57–81% and surface runoff by 19–50% in the conserved sub‐watershed. Reduction in soil erosion can maintain the soil organic carbon stock, reduce the land degradation risks, and enhance the C sequestration potential of soils. Therefore, adoption of SWC measures can increase farmers' ability to offset emissions and adapt to climate change. However, SWC measures that are both protective and sufficiently productive have not yet been implemented in the conserved sub‐watershed. Therefore, it is important that SWC structures be supplemented with other biological and agronomic measures in conjunction with soil fertility amendments appropriate to site‐specific conditions. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献