Evaluation and Demonstration of Engine Driven Soybean Thresher in East Wallaga Zone, Ethiopia

doi:10.7176/jbah/12-2-03

Abstract

With the aim of circumventing challenges faced farmers in soya bean threshing operation a demonstration of new soya bean thresher was conducted in Guto Gida and Gida Ayana woredas in a total of four kebeles. The thresher was demonstrated at farmer training center as well as on farmers’ field and evaluated for its performance against existing farmers practices by sixty participating farmers of both sexes who were members of four farmer’s research groups. All valuable data were collected through survey, measurement, count and FGDs and were analyzed in descriptive statistics. From the analysis, demonstrated soya bean thresher observed to have a capacity of about five and half quintals per hour and a threshing efficiency of 85 percent with the safer limit of breakage percent ranges from 2 to 3. This result could support the conclusion that adoption and use of demonstrated machine. Therefore it was recommended that the office of agriculture and natural resource development of the districts to further scaling up the technology to other areas to benefit quite significant number of farmers. Keywords: DA, Farmers, Demonstration, Soya bean, Soya bean thresher, traditional threshing, DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/12-2-03 Publication date: January 31 st 2022

Highlights

Soya bean (UK) or soybean (U.S.) is a leguminous herbaceous annual plant that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) classified it yet as oil crop rather than pulse
In the mid-19th century, the crop was introduced to Africa from china along the east coast of Africa (CGIAR, 2005)
Via GTP II, program targeted to increase the average productivity of soya bean by 49% between 2015 and 2020 and volume of production from 0.72 million quintals to 1.2 million over the same period to meet the demand of the market by creating a linkage with the industry and export market (GTP II, 2015)

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Soya bean (UK) or soybean (U.S.) is a leguminous herbaceous annual plant that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) classified it yet as oil crop rather than pulse. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and other scholars believe that soya bean was first domesticated in East Asia with Chinese farmers reportedly the first people to grow the crop some five thousand years ago (Boerma and Specht, 2004). It extended into neighboring regions such as the Russian Far East, Korean peninsula, Japan and later widespread to North America, Europe to South and Central America. In the mid-19th century, the crop was introduced to Africa from china along the east coast of Africa (CGIAR, 2005). Over a period of 19th century, the crop was introduced to Africa from china along the east coast of Africa

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