What is it about?
In Ethiopia, national economic development is highly dependent on agriculture. Wheat, Barley, Maize, Teff, Sorghum, are major cereals and Faba bean and pea are major plus, which are essential for this national economy. Currently, most of these crops cultivated in less suitable and degraded areas due to mismanagement of the land, shortage of fertile land and pressing demand for food. Accordingly, low productivity becomes challenging in most part of Semi-arid Lowland Area of North Ethiopia. Evaluation of the land capability and suitability of mostly hilly terrain in Ethiopia. It important to modify the land use and selected and grow crops based on land suitability to get better crop production and to alleviate land degradation.
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Why is it important?
our finding show that important to modify the land use for selected and grow crops based on land suitability to get better crop production and to alleviate land degradation.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations.
Mr Gebrehana Girmay Kesaye
Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute
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This page is a summary of: Land capability classification and suitability assessment for selected crops in Gateno watershed, Ethiopia., Cogent Food & Agriculture, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2018.1532863.
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