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  • Adv Crop Sci Tech 2017, Vol 6(2): 343
  • DOI: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000343

Efforts Being Made and Success Achieved in Producing Improved Seed of Forage Cops in Ethiopia: Review Article

Fikre H*
Department of Plant Breeding, Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Bonga Agricultural Research, , Ethiopia
*Corresponding Author : Fikre H, Department of Plant Breeding, Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Bonga Agricultural Research Centre, Ethiopia, Tel: 0916876321, Email: henokfikre9@gmail.com

Received Date: Feb 01, 2018 / Accepted Date: Feb 26, 2018 / Published Date: Mar 03, 2018

Abstract

Ethiopia stands first in Africa and tenth in the world in its livestock population. In order to attain sustainable production and productivity of the wealth livestock, improved forage production in quality and quantity is highly important. Improved forage production is largely depending on the improved seed production system. To this end, the current review is aimed to summarize the comprehensive information on the potential efforts being made and achievements so far on the improved forage seed production in the country. So far different approaches have been applied to meet the need of improved forage seed production in the country. Among these involving different public institutes, seed producing enterprises, privet sectors, NGOs’ and “farmers” groups are the major one and produced a large amount of forage seed through different seed system. Besides, development of improved varieties and different agronomic practice, capacity building in seed technology and indigenous “germplasms” collection for variety development are also the effort that under took and significantly enhanced the improved forage seed production. Despite these major efforts and achievements, years of work have showed that forage seed production still faced with many problems such as lack of inadequate forage seed research, reliable forage seed production, processing and distribution schemes, less involvement of privet seed producers, lack of information on the national demand for forage seeds, poorly developed seed marketing systems, and lack of financial incentives for seed prices. Therefore, these problems need to intervene properly in order to enhance future improved forage seed production in the country.

Keywords: Agronomic practice, Institutions varieties, Seed, Forage

Citation: Fikre H (2018) Efforts Being Made and Success Achieved in Producing Improved Seed of Forage Cops in Ethiopia: Review Article. Adv Crop Sci Tech 6: 343. Doi: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000343

Copyright: © 2018 Fikre H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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