FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT / RAPPORT TECHNIQUE FINAL SCIENTIFIC WRITING REPORT ; ; © 2018, CAROL HENRY This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original work is properly credited. Cette œuvre est mise à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), qui permet l’utilisation, la distribution et la reproduction sans restriction, pourvu que le mérite de la création originale soit adéquatement reconnu. IDRC Grant / Subvention du CRDI: 107984-001-Scaling Up Pulse Innovations for Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Ethiopia (CIFSRF Phase 2) Introduction A team of two experts conducted training on scientific writing to a total of 41 participants in two Hawassarounds for a period University of 12 days at the College of Agriculture University of Hawassa of University. Saskatchewan The training Collegewas organized of Agriculture by Dr Sheleme Beyene of the College and principal investigator (PI) of the project titled “Improving Food Security in the Highlands of Southern Ethiopia through Improved and Sustainable Agricultural Productivity and Human Nutrition”. The funding of this project comes from the Candian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) Project, which in turn draws its funding sources from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the International Development Research Center (IDRC). This project provided both financial support and hands-on training on scientific writing for MSc and PhD students who graduated duringWorkshop the 2011/2012 academic year. on The training Scientific was offered by two trainers Paper (Dr Zemede Asfaw from Addis Ababa University and Professor Heluf Gebrekidan from Haramaya University) from 28 January–01 February, 2013; which finally led to the preparation of a Research Booklet and several manuscripts ready for submission to scientific journals. The manuscripts are now at different stagesWriting moving towards publication. The Project Management, having found the previous training very useful for the trainees and having been encouraged by the quality of the deliverables, commissioned the same trainers and organized the present training from 16-27 December, 2013. In this second scientific writing training, graduate students of the College who received financial support for their MSc and PhD theses were invited. Also invited were, academic staff who have been granted staff research funds from the same project. The training had a theoretical component of interactive PowerPoint lectures and practical exercises on different parts of the scientific paper, illustrating with draft manuscripts of some participants and other materials. The training went through two consecutive rounds where 20 students took part in the first round, conducted from December 16-23 and 14 academic staff from that from December 24-26, 2013. Most of the graduate students (except two) and the academic staff (? except two) who participated in the training have not yet December11-16completed the preparation of manuscripts. Canadian International 2017 The main objective of the training was to assist the graduate students and junior academic staff Food(some of them Security PhD candidates) in Researchtheir efforts to produce their theses as well as original scientific publications out of their research findings. A total of 27 graduate students and 14 academic staff participatedFund in the training. (CIFSRF) This report, along with the appendices, briefly shows the activities of the second scientific writing training. 1 Preface The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) Project at College of Agriculture of Hawassa University has been supporting graduate students who conduct researches on problems areas directly linked to its objectives. Besides covering the cost to undertake the proposed researches, grantees got trainings on different scientific activities to build their scholastic career and future undertakings. These activities has helped the students and their professors to publish many articles in reputable journals and positively contributed to the outcome of the project. The participants of the current scientific paper writing workshop were earlier trainees on a workshop how to write proposals with the objective to shape their draft proposals in to viable MSc research projects. The current scientific paper writing workshop was organized for six days (December 11-16). The main objective was to introduce students to scientific papers and help them write standard scientific papers starting with their MSc research findings. The interactive training had theoretical and practical sessions where by the two trainers, Dr. Ferdu Azerefegne and Dr. Tewodros Tefera, and fellow students continually gave comments and critics on the student draft papers. The students learnt the structure of scientific papers and how to write each section, the language of scientific papers, dos and don’ts. Besides the mechanics of writing, trainees were introduced to the processes publishing articles, including selection of journals, sending articles, and communicating with the editors. This report contains thirteen manuscripts which were prepared under the guidance of the trainers. The trainers witnessed very good progress in the development of the manuscripts and are of the opinion that most of them will eventually be accepted for publication in good journals. The trainers appreciated very much the support by CIFSRF project to students on proposal and scientific writing. Supports by similar projects are mostly limited to the research work and converting the hard earned data in to valuable scientific papers has often been overlooked. The excellent setup of the training, organization and support from the project leader and his team made the training very convenient and enjoyable to the trainers and the participants. Ferdu Azerefegne, Hawassa University Tewodros Tefera, Hawassa University December, 2017 2 Table of Contents 1. Agribusiness and Value Chain Management 1. Besufekad Belayneh: Role and Trend of Pulse Crops Production and Marketing on 1 Household Income and Consumption in Damot Gale and Humbo Woredas of Southern Ethiopia 2. Eyob Adane: Analysis of Chickpea Commercialization in Meskan and Sodo Districts, 12 Southern Ethiopia 3. Hanna Mamo: The Effect of Gender Differential in Productivity and Marketing of 27 Haricot Bean and Chickpea in Halaba and Misrak Badawacho Districts, Southern Ethiopia 4. Solomon Admasu: Analysis of Community based Chickpea and Common bean Seed 48 Value Chain in Damot-Gale and Halaba, Southern Ethiopia. 5. Jemal Ahmed, Tewodros Tefera, Girma T. Kassie. Consumers’ Preference and 65 Willingness to Pay for Chickpea Enriched Snack Products in Shashamane and Hawassa Cities, Ethiopi 6. Tamirat Girma,Tewodros Tefera and Deribe Kaske.. Determinants of Haricot Bean 87 Production and Resource Use Efficiency of producers in Halaba Special District, Southern Ethiopia 2. Agronomy 1. Kamil Temam, Berhanu Abate and Walelign Worku. Performance of Chickpea 105 Varieties Grown under Double Crop Sequence at Damotgale District, Southern Ethiopia 2. Lake Mekonnen, Walelign Worku and Sheleme Beyene. Response of Chickpea to 122 Water Stress and Blended Fertilizers on Vertisols of Meskan, Southern Ethiopia 3. Applied Human Nutrition 1. Abinet Hailu: Effectiveness of Government Structure in Grass Root Level on 142 Knowledge Transfer of Pulse Use in Hawassa Zuria Woreda, Southern Ethiopia. 2. Aniley Shewaneh, Tigist Fekadu and Carol Henry. Gender Differences on acceptance 149 of Nutrition Education and its effect on Household Pulse Consumption in Daramalo Woreda, Southern Ethiopia 4. Gender and Family Studies 1. Yeshemebet Yirga and Alemante Amera. Effect of Improved Chickpea Production on 158 Rural Women Economic Empowerment: The Case of Halaba, Southern Ethiopia 5. Soil Science 1 Jemaludin saliha, Girma Abera and Sheleme Beyene. Effect of Blended Fertilizers on 172 Yield and Yield Components of Haricot bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) on Cambisol at Meskan, Southern Ethiopia 2. Rameto Wabela, Sheleme Beyene and Alemeyahu Kiflu.Characterization and 181 Classification of Soils along a Catena in Borara Watershed, Southern Ethiopia. 3 4 1. Agribusiness and Value Chain Management Graduate Program 5 Determinants of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Marketed Surplus among Smallholder Farmers in Humbo and Damot Gale Woredas, Southern Ethiopia Besufekad Belayneh1a, Tewodros Tefera1 and Thomas Lemma1 1 Hawassa University, School of Environment, Gender and Development Studies. P. O. Box 05, Hawassa, Ethiopia Abstract This research was aimed to study the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) marketed surplus among smallholder farmers in the Humbo and Damot Gale Woredas. A multi-stage sampling technique was used in order to determine the sample respondents. By using simple random sampling technique four sample Kebeles were selected. Cross sectional data were collected from 182 farm households who produced chickpea in 201x production season. Primary data were collected from sample households using structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and econometric model were employed to analyze the data. To identify determinants of marketed surplus of chickpea, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) model was employed. The finding revealed that cultivated area, seed variety and distance to nearest market,