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The study was conducted in Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha and Arsi Negele districts of Oromia regional state of Ethiopia with the objective of enhancing the production and productivity of beekeeping in the area through demonstration of transitional locally made beehive around protected areas. Beekeepers around protected areas were purposively selected based on their interest in beekeeping, experience in traditional beekeeping, proximity of residence to protected areas and non-addressed areas with technology dissemination activity and two farmers research groups (FRG) consisting a total of 20 members were established to conduct the demonstration of beekeeping technology. Theoretical and practical training sessions about seasonal bee management practices, intermediate beekeeping construction, implementation and honey harvesting techniques integrated to natural resources rehabilitation was given to a total of 50 beekeepers,4 district honey experts and 6 development agents. After training, twenty four transitional locally made.............. beehives were constructed and honeybee colonies were transferred and inspected regularly undertaken to follow up the progress of the bee colonies in partnership with FRG members, experts and development agents. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected, systematically analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statics such as percentage, mean and presented in table. Accordingly, an average of 15.4kg and 12.1kg of honey was harvested per harvesting season from transitional beehive at Adami Tulu and Arsi Negele, respectively. Therefore integration of intermediate beekeeping technology with protected areas can enhance the income of household and encourages planting of bee forages which directly contributes for sustainable forest managements. Thus government and other stakeholders at all levels should provide technical services for beekeeping to align improved beekeeping to protected areas and all best practices

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The gradual transformation from subsistence farming to a monoculture Khat crop economy emerged in Eastern Ethiopia of Eastern Hararghe; due to socio-economic, environmental and agro-ecological reasons. This study was carried out to investigate as to whether and how long the Khat crop economy itself is sustainable. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The research tools used were questionnaire, focus group discussion, field observation and interview. The Sconnes’ 1998 Sustainable livelihoods were used as a guiding framework for the inquiry process. For clustering and interpreting................

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This study was conducted to study the genotoxicity potential of soil contaminated by the fly ash emitted from coal fired thermal power. The metals/metalloids (Fe, Zn, Pb, Cd, Mo, Cu, Cr, Co and Ni) concentration of contaminated soil (prepared by mixing equal proportion of soil and fly ash, w/w) was estimated with the help of atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) model: AA 7000, SHIMADZU before plantation of Tradescantia pallida in pots. Trad-MCN was performed as per standard protocol given by Ma. The image of MCN (micronuclei) was taken with the help of Leica (DM200). It was observed that the presence of metals/metalloids in contaminated soil caused the formation of micronuclei in Tradescantia pallida by chromosomal breakage. Present study showed that fly ash contaminated soil can be genotoxic and it can be biomonitored using Trad-MCN bioassay.

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The Canine Distemper as one of the main infectious diseases that affect both domestic and wild canines as well as several other mammals both terrestrial and marine and the difficulty of its diagnosis based on clinical signs, has motivated several studies have been carried out in the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences of the University of Chile to detect the etiological agent: The Canine Distemper Virus. The molecular technique used is the Polymerase Chain Reaction associated with reverse transcription and the different genes that make up its genome have been used as a detection target: H, P, F, L, N find a method optimal that allows the diagnosis of ante-morten disease early. Thus, in this report, when using the M gene, which codes for the protein of the Virus Matrix, a molecular detection protocol was implemented that completes the information regarding which would be the optimal gene...........

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The study was conducted from November 2014 to April 2015 dairy farms of the Ambo and Holleta town to assess the major observed health problem associated risk factors. The total of 20 small and large scale dairy farms was included in the current observational study. From this selected dairy farms 475 dairy cattle; 201 in Holleta and 274 in Ambo were examined for different health problems. Observational study was implemented by conducting regular visit during the study period with the interval of once per three weeks. Accordingly, Dermathophilosis (25.1%), mange mites (18.3%), tick infestation (30.1), lice infestation (20.2), retained fetal membrane (3.1), dystocia (2.8) as common reproductive problem of dairy cows. Infectious disease like clinical...........