Ethiopia: Clustered maize production, productivity shown 50 percent increase

Capitalizing on agricultural production and productivity in such a critical time Ethiopia is passing through invigorates the nation's aspiration to ensure food self-sufficiency. To this end, diversifying agricultural extension is among the best solutions. Low land wheat production through irrigation is a good experience in this regard. Similarly, cluster maize production has shown promising result. Report indicates that, the Agricultural Commercialization Cluster (ACC) introduced in November 2019 cluster maize production by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA). It has led to increase maize productivity by 50 percent. The ACC, a project that aspires to gather farmers with pieces of land to farm together employing every means available to enhance their productivity, aims at transforming these clusters into commercial farms owned by the farmers themselves. According to the ATA sources, through the agricultural commercialization cluster farmers organized in the ...