Livestock Research Directorate
The Livestock research directorate undertakes different research activities in the six research centers under TARI distributed in different zones and agro ecologies.
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Research
Research Center
Focus areas
Humera Research Center
Ruminant animal (Milk and Meat)
Axum Research Center
Large ruminant, Bee, poultry
Mekelle Research Center
Ruminant animals, Bee, poultry
Alamata Research Center
Large ruminant
Abergelle Research Center
Small ruminant and fishery
Shire-Maitsebri Research Center
Ruminant animals
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Skilled Manpower
Centers
Manpower Based on Level of Education including people on study leave
PhD
MSc
BSc
Diploma
Actual
%
TARI-head quarter
2
3.08
0
0.00
Mekelle
9
13.85
3
4.62
Axum
1
1.54
8
12.31
Abergelle
7
10.77
Alamata
Humera
Shire-Maitsebri
5
7.69
Total
15
23.08
40
61.54
4
6.15
6
9.23
Goals
Core areas to be tackled
Major Commodities
Major Research Categories
Research Approach
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General Background
The agriculture sector in Tigray plays a central role and holds great potential to save lives and contribute to livelihoods, support rural households, and provide decent employment. From this, the crop sub-sector plays an important role in Tigray economic development as a major source of income, provides food and nutritional security, employment opportunity, and saves on foreign exchange expenditure through import substitution. Currently, the annual crop production stands at more than 2 million tons of food crops and 36,441.61 tons of horticultural crops from nearly 954522.53 ha (74% of the cultivated land), all supporting 1,818,960 households. The crops research directorate, in this regard, is mandated to conduct, promote, streamline, co-ordinate and regulate research in all agro-ecologies of Tigray, considering all crops of economic importance with the objective to generate, multiply and disseminate crop information, technologies, knowledge, and practices to accelerate productivity, value addition, and enhancement of competitiveness for meeting the local demand and beyond so as to improve the livelihoods.
Research Centers Engaging in Crops Research
Currently, six agricultural research centers are engaging in research on various crops to varied extent and representing different agro-ecologies of Tigray.
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Center
Pillar Commodities
Sesame, fiber crops, lowland pulses (green gram, haricot bean, soy bean), and horticultural crops (banana, date palm, okra)
Sorghum, maize, rice, finger millet, pepper, mango
Taf, chick pea, onion, mango, avocado, fenugreek
Abrgelle
Sorghum, groundnut, cow pea, citrus, pepper
Wheat, barley, faba bean, lentil, potato, sweet potato, tissue culture , cactus
Wheat, barley, sorghum, faba bean, dekoko, papaya, pepper, onion, mango, tomato, coffee,
Human Resources
Manpower
BSc.
MSc.
Ph.D.
Researcher
-
29
59
94
Technical Assistant
13
Research Thematic Areas
Research Setup
In order to contribute significantly to the economic development, crop directorate is structured into six research programs as outlined below.
Strategic Intervention
Beneficiary and Stakeholders
Get In Touch
Teklay Abebe (Ph.D.)
Senior Researcher
Email: teklayabebe6@gmail.com
Cell phone: 0911905589
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Focus areas of the directorate
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Goal To contribute to the region`s long term policy, strategy and planned objectives through generation and delivery of improved natural resources management technologies and innovations.
Research thematic areas
Manpower of NRRD
Based on Level of Education
Diploma &below
No.
0.9
1.8
2.7
Mekelle ARC
12
10.8
13.5
Axum ARC
4.5
7.2
Abergelle ARC
5.4
Alamata ARC
Humera ARC
8.1
20
18
Shire-Maitsebri ARC
6.3
Shire Soil RC
17
15.3
Mekelle Soil RC
11
9.9
26
23.4
53.2
111
100
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Mission
The Directorate is given a mission to improve agricultural production and productivity, improve post harvest product handling and improve access for least cost energy in the rural Tigray through undertaking demand driven and participatory research on agricultural mechanization, post-harvest and feed processing technologies and renewable energy technologies.
Vision
Thematic (research) areas
Research pillar of the directorate