| Overview : The Agricultural sector has the greatest potential for improving rural livelihood and eradicating poverty and is the cornerstone of Ethiopia’s medium term strategy - the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). By the end of the GTP period, the government seeks to double yields of smallholder farmers largely by scaling-up best practices, producing high value crops, expanding irrigation development and promoting natural resource conservation. A substantial increase in agricultural yield and output is expected to be realized by implementing interventions aimed at speeding-up the assimilation and adoption of improved agricultural technology and management practices of the most productive “model farmer” to the less productive smallholder farmers. Recent studies show that the impact of these strategies on productivity and production targets while are generally achievable, the country needs to adopt more cost-effective, innovative and modern approaches to innovative agricultural systems. These approaches have been designed and implemented in selected countries in Africa and Asia to increase production and productivity of smallholder farmers with notable success. Ethiopia can draw on these experiences to develop and utilize ICT-based innovative approaches to implement robust strategies and intervention to transform its agricultural sector and double production and productivity of smallholder farmers as envisaged in the GTP.
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