Overview
The Areka center, established in 1986, is a key hub for crop research. It specializes in improving sustainable agriculture for smallholder farmers, with a core focus on enset (false banana), cereals, and natural resource management, directly supporting food and nutrition security in the region.
Our Vision
To secure food and nutrition security for the farming community in southern Ethiopia by enhancing sustainable agriculture through new technology generation, demonstration, multiplication of adapted ones.
Our Mission
Conducting demand-driven problem solving research on target crops like enset, natural resource management, livestock and socio-economic related agricultural production and productivity challenges. Generating, adapting, disseminating and multiplication of improved agricultural technologies suitable for small holder and commercial producers in the region.
Areas of Expertise
Contact Information
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