amhara region agricultural research institute (arari)
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Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI)
By Gizaw Desta (PhD)
ARARI Establishment Established before 10 years to spearhead the
regional research system – some of its research centers established before 25 yrs
Organized into Five Research Directorates: Crop Livestock Soil and Water Forestry Agricultural Mechanization & Food Sciences
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Five Comprehensive Research centers
1) Adet ARC ( Crop, Soil & water, Forestry)
2) Debre Birhan ARC ( Crop, Soil & Water, Livestock & Forestry)
3) Sirinka ARC (Crop, Soil & Water, Livestock & Forestry)
4) Sekota DLARC (Crop, Soil & Water, Livestock & Forestry)
5) Gondar ARC (Crop, soil & Water, Livestock & Foerestry)
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Three specialized research centers
1) Bahir Dar Fishery and other aquatic life research center
2) Bahir Dar Agricultural Mechanization and Food Science Research center
3) Andassa Livestock Research center
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Five research sub-centers
Debre Tabor Finoteselam Alem Ketam Kobo Jari
And over 40 trial stations
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What is the major objective of ARARI? Generation and adaptation of improved
agricultural technologies
Demonstration and popularization of improved technologies and knowledge to users through pre-extension demonstration, exhibition, field days, training, advice, and publications
Multiplication of breeder and pre-seed
Coordinate the regional agricultural research system
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What are the main water related activities?
In-situ rain water harvesting and management for moisture stress areas- for hillslopes: half moon, trench, eyebrow,
and for agricultural bottom lands: tie-ridge, zie
pit
Evaluation and demonstration of water harvesting systems –Technical and socioeconomic evaluation of
water harvesting systemsComparative analysis of lining materials for
seepage control
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Evaluation, verification and demonstration of surface drainage techniques (BBF, BBM, RF) and reuse of drained water for supplemental irrigation in vertisol areas
Integrated watershed management –WH, SWC
Assessment and management of wetlands
Runoff-rainfall relation, runoff-soil loss
What are the main water related activities?
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Conservation agriculture practices – mulching, zero tillage, crop residue, cover crops, green manuring
Testing deficit water management techniques Irrigation water management
Flood prediction and flood control Agrometeorology and cropping pattern
studies, drought and its coping strategies Evapotranspiration
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How do you decide about the water related activities?
Which data do you use? – generated through informal and formal survey Rainfall (deficit or excess) Farming system (less or high water demand) Soil (WHC, soil depth) Socio-economic (capacity of farmers for uptake of
technology, preference or demand, knowledge) How do you decide about the location of the
activities? Extent of problem or constraint The feasibility of potential impact and demand for adoption Representation of wider biophysical, agroecological and
socioeconomic sets of conditions or domain
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Can you describe the process that leads to activities Agricultural problems surveyed (and presented
to stakeholder platform) Major researchable issues identified These issues will be distributed to research
centers for project proposal development Proposed research activities will be reviewed at
department level, followed by research centre level
Research and Partner joint annual research review will be done by involving researchers, university researchers, extension, and NGOs
Annual Research Directory will be developed
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Do you investigate the impact of the activities? Impact of activities were not studied very often.
But technical and socio-economic assessments of the activities are investigated
To what extent do you use maps and GIS? It is not common to apply Map and GIS tools for
many of the research activities as there is lack of input data and knowledge of tools
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Who are the partners that ARARI is working with?• Small holder farmers, water user associations, FREG• Bureau of Agriculture (BoA) or agricultural extension• Bureau of Water Resources (BOWRD)• Cooperative agencies• Seed enterprises, private investors, private business
processors and enterprises• The regional government• NGOs and donors of bilateral & multi-lateral
agreement• Regional agricultural colleges and Universities • Regional, national and international research
institutes• Stakeholder platforms
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How do you disseminate knowledge to these partners ? Participatory research – Farmer-Research-
Extension-Group (FREG) Demonstrations and pre-scaling up
Stakeholder platforms (ARDPLAC) – developing technology package and popularization through the extension service
Training and workshops Field days and experience visit Exhibition of technologies and information Publication – Annual progress reports, Proceedings,
Journals, Manuals, Posters and Leaflets
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Examples of success stories? If possible illustrate a success story? What
were the factors that led to success? Rainfed Potato production in North Shewa –
competing with the barley system Rice and vegetable production in Fogera wetland Broad Bed and Furrow (BBF) expansion to vertisol Village based Menz-Awassi cross breed production
in Menz and South Wollo areas – poor crop farming system and immediate benefit gain
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Do you have an examples of projects that were less successful? What were the drivers hampering success? Water harvesting – due to blanket planning Broad Bed Maker (BBM) – specific to soil and
rainfall onset
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Thank you
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