Oromia Agricultural Research Institute

From then the Institute has been undertaking various research activities that have been fundamental for food security and poverty reduction with full mandate to solve any agricultural problems by doing basic and applied research programs in the region and in special condition in the country. To overcome these great responsibilities, the Institute organized itself in firm base of structure and planned action to solve the problem step by step. To increase production and productivities and to bring the desired impacts, the most relevant demand driven, problem solving and cost-effective agricultural technologies must be needed. For this OARI should follow a new research approaches that emphasizes on identifying strategic issues that help to overcome the rapidly changing conditions both in the internal and external environments. The environment in which OARI operated has changed in many fronts. As is the case with many developing countries, the scarcity of resources is acute and critical, for there are many competing priorities that need attention. To use the limited resources effectively and efficiently and win through this competitive atmosphere, OARI should make systematic, costumer-based, result oriented, participatory and team based research. In 19 years experiences, 17 research centers have been functioning and capacitated in all aspects to tackle agricultural problems of farmers and pastoral society of the region. OARI is head quartered at Finfine and coordinates 17 regional research centers namely, Holetta Bee and Ziway Fishery Resources research, Bako, Jimma and Asella Agri. Mechanization research, Bako, Sinana, Adami Tullu, Fedis, Yabelo, Bore, Mechara and Haro Sebu Agricultural research centers, Fiche, Bedele, Nekemte, and Zuway soil research centers located at different agro-ecologies of the region. The organizational structure of OARI constitutes one Director General, one Deputy Director General, five Research Process Directorates and six Support processes at the head quarter. OARI currently runs research activities that are organized under the five research process directorates, viz. crop, livestock, natural resources, agricultural mechanization and agricultural economics and extension. Each directorate coordinates multi-disciplinary team based researches. In technology transfer process, Agricultural and Rural Development Actors Linkage Advisory Councils (ARDALAC) were established and strengthened at Zone, and regional levels and under the process of establishment at Ana level