CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Ajebu Nurfeta Date of Birth: 31 December 1963 Citizenship: Ethiopian Office Address: Department of Animal and Range Sciences, College of Agriculture, Hawassa University P.O. Box 5, Hawassa, Ethiopia E-mail: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Ruminant Nutrition, Dairy Cattle Production, Milk Processing, Hide and Skin processing, Parasitology

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPIC

Improving the productivity of ruminants through proper utilization of farm-based feed resources: Case of enset (Ensete ventricosum) in southern Ethiopia.

EDUCATION

Diploma (Distinction), Animal Science, Awassa College of Agriculture, Addis Ababa University, Awassa, Ethiopia, 1986 B.Sc (Hons.), Animal Science, The University of Reading, UK, 1996 M.Sc, Dairy Animal Science, The University of Reading, UK, 1997 PhD, Animal Nutrition, Department of Animal and Aqucultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, 2008 (October 2, 2008, date of defense)

Short course: -Dairy Cattle Production for Rural Development, International Agricultural Centre (IAC), The Netherlands, August-November 2000 (3½ month). -Dairy Cattle Production, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, August 2001 (1 month) -African Range Ecology, Forte Hare University, South Africa, July-August 2004 (2 month) -Forage Evaluation in Ruminant Nutrition, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Umeå (1 week), November 2008.

EMPLOYMENT

2004-2008 PhD student, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway 1997-2003 Lecturer, Hawassa University, Ethiopia 1987-1993 Technical Assistant, Addis Ababa University, Awassa College of Agriculture, Ethiopia

PUBLICATIONS

1. Ajebu Nurfeta. Feed intake, digestibility, nitrogen utilization and body weight change of sheep consuming wheat straw supplemented with local agricultural and agro- industrial by-products. Tropical Animal Health and Production. DOI: 10.1007/s11250- 009-9491-8. 2. Ajebu Nurfeta. Digestibility and nitrogen utilization in sheep fed enset (Ensete ventricosum) pseudostem or corm and graded levels of Desmodium intortum hay to wheat straw based diets. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (accepted). 3. Ajebu Nurfeta, Adugna Tolera, Lars O. Eik and Frik Sundstøl. 2009a. Effect of enset (Ensete ventricosum) leaf supplementation on feed intake, digestibility, nitrogen utilization and body weight gain of sheep fed untreated or urea and calcium oxide treated wheat straw. Livestock Science, 122: 134-142. 4. A Nurfeta, A Tolera, LO Eik and F Sundstøl, 2009b. Feeding value of enset (Ensete ventricosum), Desmodium intortum hay and untreated or urea and calcium oxide treated wheat straw for sheep. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, 93:94-104 5. Bersissa Kumsa and Ajebu Nurfeta. 2008a. Comparative efficacy of albendazole, tetramisole and ivermectin against gastrointestinal nematodes in naturally infected sheep in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia. Revue de Médecine Vétérinaire, 159(12): 593- 598. 6. Ajebu Nurfeta, Adugna Tolera, Lars O. Eik and Frik Sundstøl, 2008b. Yield and mineral content of ten enset (Ensete ventricosum) varieties. Tropical Animal Health and Production, 40: 299-309 7. Ajebu Nurfeta, Lars O. Eik, Adugna Tolera and Frik Sundstøl, 2008c. Chemical composition and in sacco dry matter degradability of different morphological fractions of 10 enset (Ensete ventricosum) varieties. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 146: 55-73. 8. Ajebu Nurfeta, Adugna Tolera, Lars O. Eik and Frik Sundstøl. 2008d. The supplementary value of different parts of enset (Ensete ventricosum) to sheep fed wheat straw and Desmodium intortum hay. Livestock Science, 119: 22-30.

9. K Ergano and A Nurfeta, 2006. Economic performance of case study dairy farm in Southern Ethiopia. Livestock Research for rural development, 18(1). http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd18/1/cont1801.htm 10. Demelash Biffa, Ajebu Nurfeta and Yilma Jobre, 2004. Evaluation of anthelmintic activities of crude leaf extract of the three indigenous herbal plants against ovine gastrointestinal nematodosis. Ethiopian Veterinary Journal, 8: 57-66. 11. Demelash Biffa and Ajebu Nurfeta, 2003. Observation into the effects of outbreak of coccidiosis associated with respiratory infection at the poultry farm of Awassa College of Agriculture. Ethiopian Veterinary Journal, 7(1):

NAME AND ADDRESSES OF REFERENCES:

2. Professor Frik Sundstøl, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O.Box 5003, 1432Aas, Norway. E-mail: [email protected]