Ethiopia: Reducing Post-Harvest Losses, Ensuring Crop Productivity

For farmers, be they traditional or modern, the most unbearable phenomenon is an eminent loss of harvest, for which they have spent their energy, time and money for months, due to weather shocks while the crops are yet in a field.

The phenomenon will be even worse in countries like Ethiopia where the national food security is greatly dependent on nature's goodwill to poor rain at the time when the crop fields need it and to stop it when the fields no longer need it specially during harvesting time.

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