UOG-27th Annual Research Conference Abstract Booklet UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR 27TH ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ABSTRACT BOOK LET GONDAR, ETHIOPIA , March 25-26, 2017 | i UOG-27th Annual Research Conference Abstract Booklet Contents Contents ..................................................................................................................................................ii Preface ..................................................................................................................................................vii 1. College of Agriculture and Rural Transformation......................................................................... 1 CART-01: Analysis of Socioeconomic Aspects of Smallholder Vegetable Production in North Gondar Zone, ANRS, Ethiopia .......................................................................................................... 1 CART-02: Allometric Equations for Prediction of Aboveground Biomass in Woodland Ecosystem, Aletash National Park, North West Ethiopia ..................................................................................... 2 CART-03: Survey and management of maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais Motsch) using selected botanicals and inert materials on stored Sorghum grain (Sorghum bicolor) in Gondar Zuria Woreda North Western Ethiopia ..................................................................................................................... 3 CART-04: Members’ participation in primary Dairy cooperatives in North Gondar zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia ................................................................................................................................ 4 CART-05: Log-wood Utilization and Production Efficiency of wood-based Micro and Small Enterprises in Selected towns of North and South Gondar Zones. .................................................... 5 CART-06: Structure and Functioning of Timber and Fuel wood Value Chains from Smallholder Plantations in Amhara Region ........................................................................................................... 6 CART-07: Agricultural Extension: Challenges in Addressing the Needs of Smallholders in North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia....................................................................................................................... 7 CART-08: Job Satisfaction and Its Determinants among development agents: the case of North Gondar zone: Amhara Region, Ethiopia............................................................................................ 8 CART-09: Determinants of Market Supply and Outlet Choices by Smallholder Onion Farmers in Fogera District Amhara Region, Northwestern Ethiopia................................................................... 9 CART-10: Assessment of Non-timber forest products in Quara District, Northwestern Ethiopia.. 10 CART-11: Determinants of Agricultural Extension Service Delivery ፡ the case of North Gondar zone: Amhara Region, Ethiopia....................................................................................................... 11 Cart-12: Evaluations of Chickpea Varieties and Fungicides for the Management of Chickpea Fusarium Wilt (Fusarium Oxysporum F.Sp. Ciceris) Disease at Adet Sick Plot in Northwest Ethiopia............................................................................................................................................ 13 CART-13: Value Chain of Cotton in Case of Metema Woreda ...................................................... 14 CART-14: How did trees grow in the highlands of Gondar: Reconstructing 300 years of forest growth and disturbance.................................................................................................................... 15 CART-15: Modelling of Land Surface Temperature from satellite Data and trigger by of Land use/Land cover Dynamics by using Remote Sensing and GIS Technology “A cause study of Debre Tabor District, South Gondar zone, Ethiopia”................................................................................. 15 2. College of Business and Economics ............................................................................................ 17 CBE-01: Perception of Tax Officers towards Challenges of Tax Revenue Mobilization in North Gondar Administrative Zone of Ethiopia......................................................................................... 17 March 25-26, 2017 | ii UOG-27th Annual Research Conference Abstract Booklet CBE-02: Risk Attitude and Discounting Behavior of Recognized Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Amhara Region........................................................................................................................18 CBE-03: The Value Chain Analysis of Micro and Small Enterprises’ in Manufacturing Sector in the case of North Gondar Zone ........................................................................................................19 CBE-04: Determinants of Household Poverty: Analysis of Multidimensional Aspect in Rural and Urban Areas in Amhara Region .......................................................................................................20 CBE-05: Governance Practices and Public Service Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia .....................................................................................................21 CBE-06: Rural Roads Access and its socio- economic impact in Ethiopia: Evidence from Amhara region................................................................................................................................................22 CBE-07: Investment Potentials, Opportunities and Challenges in North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia...23 CBE-08: The Effects of Workplace Friendship & Good Governance on Employees Job Satisfaction, Turn over Intention and Task Performance .................................................................25 CBE-09: Sources of Income Inequalities, Poverty and Determinants of Household Saving in Rural and Urban Amhara Region...............................................................................................................26 CBE-10: Assessing Barriers Encountered During Micro and Small Business Start-Up (A Case of North Gondar Zone) .........................................................................................................................27 CBE-11: Challenges of Tax Administration and Tax Revenue Mobilization: Special Reference to North Gondar Administrative zone in Ethiopia................................................................................28 CBE-12: Micro and Small Enterprises Sustainability and its Economic Contribution in Amhara Region ..............................................................................................................................................29 3. College of Medicine and Health Science .....................................................................................31 CMHS-01: Improving Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Evaluation of MDR/XDR TB Genetic Diversity in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.............................................................................................................31 CMHS-02: Feasibility of Implementing Tablet-Server Based Electronic Data Collection Method in Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance Site North-West Ethiopia: A crossover randomized control trial. ......................................................................................................................................32 CMHS-03: The Burden of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in a Cohort of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive Patients in Northwest Ethiopia .................................................................................34 CMHS-04: Level of Fecal Coliform Contamination of Drinking Water in rural North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia; A Cross-Sectional community-based Study .....................................................................35 CMHS-05: Bacterial Profile and their Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns from Inpatients Suspected for Nosocomial Infections at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia....................36 CMHS-06: Ethnopharmacological Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers in Northwest Ethiopia...........................................................................................................................38 CMHS-07: Incidence and risk factors of first line antiretroviral treatment failure among HIV infected children in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia .....................................................................39 CMHS-08: Audit on immediate Post-operative Vital Signs Monitoring Practice in GUH Recovery Room ................................................................................................................................................40 March 25-26, 2017 | iii UOG-27th Annual Research Conference Abstract Booklet CMHS-09: Trends and causes of child mortality in children aged less than 15 years: The case of Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites (HDSS) in Ethiopia ................................................... 41 CMHS-10: Hunger as a Major Coping Strategy of Shortage of Food: The Case of Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance Site: Northwest Ethiopia ...................................................................... 42 CMHS-11: Knowledge, Practice and Associated Factors towards Adverse Drug Reaction reporting among nurses working in district Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia...................................................