eprintid: 10178
rev_number: 17
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datestamp: 2017-09-13 06:47:40
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Tamene, L
creators_name: Amede, T
creators_name: Kihara, J
creators_name: Tibebe, D
creators_name: Schulz, S
icrisatcreators_name: Amede, T
affiliation: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (Addis Ababa)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Addis Ababa)
affiliation: Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) (Addis Ababa)
affiliation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (Bonn)
country: Ethiopia
country: Germany
title: A review of soil fertility management and crop response to fertilizer application in Ethiopia:
Towards development of site- and context-specific fertilizer recommendation
ispublished: pub
subjects: S2020
subjects: s16
subjects: s2.11
subjects: s2.5
subjects: s28
subjects: s4004
subjects: s54
divisions: CRPS5
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
keywords: Crop response, Fertilizer applications, Ethiopia, Fertilizer use, Soil acidity, Soil management, Soil fertility
note: The project was funded by the GIZ Soil Health Program of Ethiopia. We would like to thank Dr Steffen Schulz
(GIZ) for facilitating the funding and for his involvement during the whole exercise. We greatly appreciate Steffen’s
encouragement to the team, his enthusiasm and contribution to the sustainable improvement of soil health and
agricultural productivity by supporting research and development in Ethiopia. The project was also benefited
with partial support from Africa RISING (Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation), a
program financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the United States
Government’s Feed the Future Initiative.
Thanks to the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), especially Mr Gebreyes Gurum and Dr Tesfaye
Shimber, for contributing to the success of the project. We are equally grateful for the work of our colleagues from
EIAR and other institutions who reviewed the literature and presented their results at relatively short notice.
Finally, sincere thanks to all the participants who attended the two-day workshop (1–2 December 2016), contributed
to the presentations and made valuable comments and suggestions; and to Addisu Asfaw, for note taking during
the workshop.
abstract: More than 80% of the Ethiopian population is
dependent on agriculture, which contributes about
50% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP)
and more than 80% of its export earnings. Although
the agricultural sector is the engine of economic
growth and the country has designed an “Agriculturalled
Industrialization”, the agricultural sector is still
characterized by severe soil erosion, high levels
of nutrient mining, low use of external inputs, low
productivity and limited capacity to respond to
environmental shocks. Thus, the country is grappling
with a daunting challenge: produce more food for a
fast-growing population on low fertility soils on land
owned by poor smallholder farmers who are unlikely
to afford adequate input use. To address these
challenges, several efforts are being made since the
1960s to assess the potential effects of various sources
of organic and mineral fertilizers on crop yield and soil
fertility status of the differing farming systems in the
country...
date: 2017
date_type: published
series: Publication No. 443
publisher: CIAT
place_of_pub: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
pages: 86
institution: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
official_url: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/82996/A_REVIEW_SOIL_FERTILITY_MANAGEMENT_AND_CROP_RESPONSE_FERTILIZER_APPLICATION_ETHIOPIA.pdf?sequence=5
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=A+review+of+soil+fertility+management+and+crop+response+to+fertilizer+application+in+Ethiopia%3A+Towards+development+of+site-+and+context-specific+fertilizer+recommendation&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
related_url_type: pub
funders: GIZ Soil Health Program of Ethiopia, Africa RISING and USAID
citation:   Tamene, L and Amede, T and Kihara, J and Tibebe, D and Schulz, S  (2017) A review of soil fertility management and crop response to fertilizer application in Ethiopia: Towards development of site- and context-specific fertilizer recommendation.  Technical Report. CIAT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10178/1/Soil%20fertility%20management%20in%20African%20Highlands.pdf