Digital Agricultural Bank targets improving urban agriculture in Addis Ababa, environs

Alliance Microfinance launches a digital agricultural bank targeting urban agriculture in the capital Addis Ababa and its environs in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid, Bakken & Baeck, and East African Holding, according... Read more »

Utilizing bio-tech for boosting agricultural productivity

The world is experiencing a population boom. As such, meeting food demand producing in a conventional way has proved to be unsustainable. Therefore, transforming agriculture through adopting bio-technology including the use of... Read more »

Online data portal for statistical handling

Measuring and evaluating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa became much easier as a group of regional UN entities launched the first online data portal that brings together statistical data... Read more »

Soybean crucial to ensure food security

Food science professionals agricultural researchers say that soybean is a grain legume that is very nutritious and contains on average 40 percent protein. It is gaining ground internationally due to its multiuse... Read more »

Expanding high-tech industry matters to our economic future

High-tech industries are key for countries’ economic development. It employs millions of workers globally. Significantly, the high-tech sector can highly engage in large number of workforces. Hence, apart from private sectors, the... Read more »

Plant biotechnology: Key to bring crop productivity revolution

BY ALAZAR SHIFERAW  Various researches have been conducted to address different social and developmental problems of countries. Nevertheless, very often these research conducts could not achieve the desired needs of the countries... Read more »

Fostering science and technology vital to gear-up development

 BY MEHARI BEYENE  Ethiopia values science and technology education. As it is one of the tools to gear- up the country’s all-round development, the nation has given due attention to science and... Read more »

Technological development dynamiting skills

 BY MEHARI BEYENE It is obvious that focusing on science and technology development will have a significant impact on bolstering countries’ economic development. Hence encouraging on science and technology innovations and facilitating... Read more »

Emphasis on controlling a public health threat: Malaria

 BY ALAZAR SHIFERAW Researchers argue that although tremendous efforts in financing and coverage of malaria control have been made, the disease has continued to be public health threat not only in Ethiopia... Read more »

DMU aspiring for center of excellence in crop development, agro processing

BY ALAZAR SHIFERAW Debre Markos University (DMU) says that it has been aspiring to be one of the top ten East African universities in crop development, agro processing by 2030. Thus, it... Read more »