The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR'')http://www.eiar.gov.et/ is a research institute for agricultural study in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. has evolved through several stages since its initiation during the late 1940s, following the establishment of the agricultural and technical school of

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and

Jimma Jimma () is the largest city in southwestern Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is a special zone of the Oromia Region and is surrounded by Jimma Zone. It has a latitude and longitude of . Prior to the 2007 census, Jimma was reorganized administrative ...

. Until the mid-1960s the Imperial College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts—now

Haramaya University Haramaya University (HU) ( am, ሐረማያ ዩኒቨርሲቲ; Oromo: ''Univarsiitii Haramayaa'') is a public research university in Haramaya, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is approximately east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Ministry of Science a ...

—with its Agricultural Experiment Station at

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—now Debrezeit Agricultural Research Center—was the major research entity. The establishment of the then Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) in 1966 saw the first nationally coordinated

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system in

. The EIAR is a Federal Agricultural Research Institutes. EIAR is responsible for the running of federal

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s, and Regional research Institutes are administered by the

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. In addition to conducting

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at its federal centers, EIAR is charged with the responsibility for providing the overall coordination of agricultural research countrywide, and advising Government on agricultural research policy formulation. Currently, the EIAR comprises 20 research centers and sites located across various agro-ecological zones. The research centers have a mandate to coordinate different national commodities. Some of the research centers and sites have one or more sub-centers and testing sites, for example, the

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Research Center (EORC).

Core mandates

*Supply of improved

agricultural technology Agricultural technology or agrotechnology (abbreviated agtech, agritech, AgriTech, or agrotech) is the use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency, and profitability. Agricultural tec ...

, *Popularization of improved technologies, *Coordination of the national agricultural research, and *Capacity building of farmers, development agents, agricultural extension officers, prototype manufacturers, researchers and other technology users.

External links

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
{{Authority control Agriculture in Ethiopia