date_range 2024-06-27 00:00:00
Multi-donor financed community based projects for improved coffee nursery and seedling distri butions are not commonly practiced interventions. The existing ARARI nursery centers distribute seedlings in a piecemeal way to individual smallholder coffee farmers. The fragmented technical support and trainings provided did not bring significant impacts. Hence, development of a project is required to fill those gaps that ensures improved and sustainable livelihood of the community through modern and sustainable agriculture practices which enhances high-yield and quality prod ucts that have competitive market in the long-term. This project highlights the gaps in small scale coffee production system and level of utilization of improved systems and various research outcomes through awareness trainings to farmers. Consequently, this project is designed to address the gaps mainly through improved coffee varie ties that have been released by the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute (EARI) as well as The Ethiopian Agricultural Authority plant variety release, protection and seed quality control directorate. The project will be executed under a not-for-profit organization, community based entity that will be fully financed by multi-donors. Overall, this project when appropriately implemented, it will greatly boost the long-term eco nomic viability of the community in the monastery of Zege Peninsula and reasonably contributes to the overall economy. Both secondary and primary data sources are used for the project study