Establishment of Sericulture Technology for Training and Food Insecure Areas of West Harareghe Zone: The Case of Oda Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia

Mussa Abdula Ibro

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Establishment of Sericulture Technology for Training and Food Insecure Areas of West Harareghe Zone: The Case of Oda Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia

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Sericulture is the backbone of alternative income generation to local communities. Sericulture is control deforestation, maintain climate change, control greenhouse gas effects and global warming, control erosion, flood and sedimentation down the slope. The ultimate aim of sericulture is established to combat desertification. Open job opportunity to youth, women, men, HIV/AIDS infested people. Generally, create job opportunity without categories age for all age groups, except under age and over aged people. These are through silkworm rearing and establishment of mulberry plantation for silkworm food. This project was entitled with: establishment of sericulture technology in Oda Bultum university for training of trainees and food insecure areas of west Harareghe zonal watersheds: the case of Oda Bultum university, west Harareghe zone, Oromia regional national state Ethiopia. The objectives include: The students will be able to acquire knowledge, skill and attitude practically in the field of sericulture technology; to produce the higher and the most competent manpower in the field of sericulture technology; to make the University the exemplary for others’ Universities, colleges, and institutions in the field of sericulture technology and to create a means of alternative income source for the university; to create job opportunities for the jobless youth by recruiting in the department; to provide training, introduced and implemented sericulture in the rural areas of west Harareghe zone and to make the university silkworm seed center or grange center of silkworm to west Harareghe zone and even if eastern Showa and eastern Harareghe zone and even though including the Qafar and Somali region in the long run. Questionnaires will be develop in closed and semi-closed; then that distributed randomly to Woreda, zone, and kebele, NGOS and governmental organization to select the most suitable areas to establish the sericulture technology. Thus, the collected feedback shall be analyzed and based on that decided the where needs priority. Mentoring of the project treds should conducted at certain intervals weekly or monthly. Evolution of the project shall be carry out at the middle or at the end of the project.

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DOI	10.11648/j.scif.20260201.11
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Sericulture, Project, Silkworm, Seedlings/Mulberry, Job Creation, Cocoons, Value Chain and Market

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