National Pulses Value Chain Development Strategy of Ethiopia (2016-2020).

This National Pulses Value Chain Development Strategy is a nationwide sectoral document aiming at ensuring that all components (including research and technology development, inputs production, distribution and supply, on-farm production, post-harvest handling and agro processing and trade, marketing and demand sinks) of the pulse sector are addressed in a comprehensive and coordinated manner through a value chain approach. This to realize the sector Vision that aims to see an internationally competitive pulse sector that significantly contributes to food and nutritional security, environmental resilience, increased smallholder farmers’ income, and domestic and export market.
In order to achieve the overall goal of the Strategy, a number of strategic objectives are set out for each component of the pulse sector as follows (i) develop and promote demand driven stable varieties that combine high yielding and resistance to biotic and abiotic stress; (ii) strengthen capacity for pulse research and seed multiplication (breeding, agronomy, mechanization, seed multiplication); (iii) develop agronomic recommendations of pulses crops for different cropping systems (fertilizer, Biological Nitrogen Fixation, moisture/irrigation, etc.); (iv) promote appropriate integrated pest management (IPM) recommendations for different agro-ecologies; (v) identify and introduce best fitting pre-and post-harvest farm mechanization prototypes and technologies for pulses; and (vi) generate socio-economic information on pulse production and marketing.