Haramaya University

The objective of this academic program is to produce committed, motivated, and well-trained Agribusiness Managers. After the completion of the training in B.Sc. in Agribusiness Management, the graduates should be able to:

Use management and accounting concepts and tools to analyze the farm and agro-industries production and marketing situations in solving the day to day and long-term problems in the agribusiness sector of the economy.
Use their knowledge in agribusiness management to start up and run their own private firms and agribusiness enterprises including consulting firms.
Participate and lead in the identification, appraisal and actual implementation of agribusiness development programs and projects.

Graduates of this program are equipped with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in farm and agro industries production, marketing and personnel management of various agribusiness organizations. Thus they are capable of working in different capacities in:

YEAR I
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
ABM 211	Managerial Economics I	3	ABM 212	Managerial Economics II	3
ABM 221	Business Mathematics	3	ABM 222	Management of Horticulture Based Enterprises	3
AnSc 481	Livestock Production and Management	4	ABM 232	Farm Business Management	3
ABM 231	Principles of Accounting	3	ABM 331	Financial Accounting	3
FLEn 241	College Writing Skills	3	AgEn 451	Selection & Management of Farm Machinery	2
CiEt 211	Civics & Ethics	3	PlSc 382	Crop Production and Management	3
Total		19	Total		17

YEAR II
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
ABM 311	Agribusiness Management I	3	ABM 312	Agribusiness Management II	3
ABM 321	Establishing an Agribusiness	3	ABM 322	Introduction to Food Systems Management	3
ABM 341	Human Resources Management	3	ABM 332	Research Methods in Agribusiness	3
ABM 242	Business Communication	3	ABM 342	Natural Resource and Environmental Economics	3
AgEc 231	Introduction to Statistics	3	AgEc 332	Introduction to Econometrics	3
CSIT 201	Introduction to Computer Applications	3	ABM 362	Supply Chain Management	3
AgEx 222	Rural Sociology	2	ABM 372	Ethiopian Economy (E)	3
Total		20	Total		18/21

YEAR III
Semester I			Semester II
Course code	COURSE TITLE	Cr.Hr.	Course Code	COURSE TITLE	Cr.Hr.
ABM 411	Operation Research in Agribusiness	3	AgEc 412	Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis	3
ABM 431	International Trade and Marketing	3	ABM 412	Credit & Finance in Agribusiness	3
ABM 441	Management of Seed and Agro-chemical Enterprises	3	ABM 422	Agribusiness Policy Analysis & Strategy (E)	3
ABM 451	Management Accounting	3	ABM 432	Marketing Management	3
ABM 461	Business Laws and Ethics	3	ABM 442	Financial Management	3
ABM 471	Seminar in Agribusiness	1	ABM 452	Management & Organization of Cooperatives (E)	3
ABM 481	Practical Attachment	3	ABM 462	Senior Research Project	3
Total		19	Total		18/21

The objective of this academic program is to produce committed, motivated, and highly qualified Agricultural Economists, conduct research pertaining to the socio-economic development of the farming community of the country and to render out-reach services to the farming community, governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Admission

Successful completion of the preparatory program and placement by Ministry of Education.

Graduation

• 105 credit hours
• 2.0 or better Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)
• No “F” grade in any course(s) taken

The development, growth and improvement of living standards in Ethiopia are predicated on efficient, equitable and sustainable use of its endowment of renewable and non-renewable resources. The economy will remain heavily or largely rural for the nearest decades. It will continue to depend heavily on agriculture, in particular smallholder based production, as well as agro-industry, for generating income, employment and export earnings. Subject to competing demands, its fragile resource base must be managed carefully, and equitably.

Responding to this challenge, the BSc in Agricultural Economics program will equip students, not only with the requisite concepts, knowledge and tools in economics, but also the ability to adapt them to the realities of their institutional, political and economic setting. Such capacities are especially appropriate for the Country, which has assigned very high priority to human development, poverty reduction, and food security.

The program will provide students with as solid foundation in economic concepts and methods for various purposes including applied analysis as professionals within government, business and not for profit agencies; further advanced study for those seeking a career in teaching and research; and lifelong learning and retooling. A key attribute will be creativity in tackling problems as functioning professionals and researchers through an acquired capacity to adapt concepts and instruments to the issue at hand.

Semester-wise list of courses for the three years B.Sc. Program in Agricultural Economics

YEAR I
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
AgEc 211	Microeconomics I	3	AgEc 212	Microeconomics II	3
AgEc 221	Mathematics for Economist I	3	AgEc 222	Mathematics for Economist II	3
AgEc 231	Introduction to Statistics	3	AgEc 232	Principles of Accounting	3
CSIT 201	Introduction to Computer Applications	3	PlSc 341	Field Crop Production and Management	3
FLEn 241	College Writing Skills	3	AnSc 222	Animal Production and Management II	3
AnSc 221	Animal Production and Management I	3	CiEt 211	Civics and Ethics	4
Total		18	Total		17

YEAR II
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
AgEc 311	Macroeconomics I	3	AgEc 312	Macroeconomics II	3
AgEc 321	Agricultural Business Organization and Management	3	AgEc 322	Introduction to Farm Management	3
AgEc 331	Cost and Management Accounting	3	AgEc 332	Introduction to Econometrics	3
PlSc	Industrial Crops, Fruits and Vegetables	3	AgEc 342	Research Methods in Agricultural Economics	3
AgEn 451	Selection and Management of Farm Machinery	2	AgEc 352	Rural Sociology	3
PlSc 452	Soil and Water Management	3	AgEc 362	Agricultural Marketing	3
Total		17	Total		18

YEAR III
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
AgEc 411	Organization and Management of Cooperatives	3	AgEc 412	Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis	3
AgEc 421	Natural Resources and Environmental Economics	3	AgEc 422	Operations Research	3
AgEc 431	Development Economics	3	AgEc 432	Rural Finance	3
AgEc 441	Seminar on Agricultural Economics	1	AgEc 442	International Trade	3
AgEc 451	Ethiopian Economy (E)	3	AgEc 452	Senior Essay in Agricultural Economics	3
AgEx 441	Extension Program Planning	3	AgEc 462	Institutional Economics (E)	3
PlSc 441	Coffee, Tea and Spices Production and Management (E)	3	AgEc 472	Farming Systems and Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis (E)	3
AgEn 471	Postharvest Technology (E)	3	AgEc 482	Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management	3
AgEc 461	Practical Attachment	3
Total		16/25	Total		18/21

Contact Information

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The development objective of the RDAE program is to facilitate pro-poor, gender sensitive and ecologically sound agricultural and rural development by producing educated human resource in Rural Development and Agricultural Extension at B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels. More specifically, the program will assist in professionalizing and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions for agricultural and rural development in Ethiopia by supplying the country with creative, dynamic and professional change agents who upon their graduation can serve various organizations addressing the emerging issues in rural development in an effective manner. It will in turn help to improve the life of the masses in rural areas of the country whose problems are much intertwined with cultural, socio-economic, institutional and situational issues.

The academic objective of this curriculum is to strengthen the academic activities by encompassing the realistic issues of the country such as poverty, natural resource degradation, and inequalities. Such a curriculum modification with addition of more rural development related courses will certainly make the graduates more capable to meet the challenges in the rural sector of Ethiopia. It will also match the human resource requirements of several stakeholder organizations at national and international levels.

The B.Sc. program in Rural Development and Agricultural Extension is designed to produce competent and dynamic change agents or communication workers who upon their graduation are able to facilitate rural innovation (technological and institutional innovations) process through network building, social learning and negotiation using effective communicative intervention. Upon graduation they can serve various organizations addressing the emerging issues in rural development in an effective manner. The graduates will have multiple roles: serve as adult educators/trainers, organizers, facilitators, mediators, counselors, consultants and social engineers.

Successful completion of the Preparatory Program and meeting all the requirements set by the Federal Ministry of Education.

Graduation Requirements

• Minimum credit Hour of 105
• CGPA 2.0 and above
• No F Grade

The titles of various courses with their respective courses codes and the semester and the year of study in which they are offered are shown in the following tables. Semester-wise list of courses for the three years B.Sc. Program in Rural Development and Agricultural Extension

YEAR I
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
RDAE 211	Psychology for Rural Extension	3	RDAE 212	Theories of Adult Learning	2
Pl.Sc 262	Introductory Soil and Water Management	2	AgEc 261	Farm Bookkeeping & Accounting	2
CiEt 211	Civics & Ethics	3	RDAE 222	Extension Methods & Approaches	3
PlSc 382	Crop Production & Management	4	AgEc 262	Introduction to Economics	3
RDAE 231	Rural Sociology	3	PlSc. 362	Integrated Pest Management	3
CSIT 201	Introduction to Computer Application	3	RDAE 232	Interpersonal Communication & Group Dynamics	3
			Pl.Sc. 182	Agro forestry Systems and Practices	3
Total		19	Total		19

YEAR II
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
AnSc 481	Livestock Production & Management	4	RDAE 312	Gender and Youth in Rural Development	3
AgEn 471	Post-harvest Technology	3	RDAE 322	Field Project II (Implementation)	2
RDAE 311	Agricultural Statistics & Experimental Design	3	RDAE 332	Rural Organizations	3
RDAE 321	Field Project I (Planning)	1	RDAE 342	Socio-Economic Research Methods	3
AgEc 321	Farm Management	3	RDAE 352	Technical Report Writing	3
RDAE 331	Rural Development	3	RDAE 362	Senior Research Proposal	1
RDAE 341	Teaching Methods and Audio-visual Techniques	3	AgEc 472	Farming Systems and Sustainable Livelihoods	3
Total		20	Total		18

YEAR III
Semester I			Semester II
code	Title	Cr.Hr.	Code	Title	Cr.Hr.
Ag.Ec.411	Agricultural Project Planning and Analysis	3	RDAE 412	Training for Development	3
RDAE 411	Agricultural Journalism and Media	3	RDAE 422	Organization and Management	3
AgEc 331	Agricultural Marketing	3	RDAE 432	Program Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation	3
RDAE 421	Field Project III (Evaluation and Reporting)	2	RDAE 442	Rural Social Development	2
RDAE 431	Environment and Society	3	AgEc 432	Rural Finance	3
Pl.Sc	Agro-meteorology & Response Farming	3	AgEn 452	Rural Energy and Power Utilization	3
RDAE 441	Senior Research Project Report	2	AgEn 351	Soil Conservation & Watershed Management	2
			RDAE 452	Senior Seminar	1
Total		19	Total		20

• The main objective is:
• To produce qualified manpower in agricultural teachers education (Animal production)
• Carry out extension activities in the Animal Production.
• Participate in research activities;
• Initiate technical innovation and animal products development;
• Enable them to be an entrepreneur and establish advisory consultation units;
• Involve in the development of Livestock production education curriculum;

Up on completion of the program, the graduate is expected to work:
• As An animal production teacher;
• As an animal production expert;
• As an Animal production extension agent;
• Participate in curriculum development in Animal Production sciences;
• As researcher in the field of Animal Sciences
• In initiation of entrepreneurship development

The semester-wise course distribution for the three years B.SC program in Animal Production is given in the Table below.
Department: Animal Production

YEAR I
Semester I			Semester II
Code	Title	Cr.Hr	Code	Title	Cr.Hr
AnSc 211	Animal Anatomy and Physiology	3*	AnSc 212	Principles of Animal Nutrition	3
AgEc 231	Introduction to Statistics	3*	AnSc 222	Reproductive Physiology and AI	2
Engl 211	Communicative English Skills I	2	AnSc 232	Forage and Pasture Crops Production and Mgmt.	3
Chem 251	Biochemistry	3	AnSc 242	Introduction to Animal Genetics	3*
Biol 261	General Microbiology	3	AnSc 252	Fisheries and Aquaculture	3
PlSc 211	Introduction to Plant Sciences	3	CSIt 201	Introduction to computer applications (E)	3*
CiEt 211	Civics and Ethics	4	Eng 212	Communicative English Skills II	2
			Ansc 262	Practical Animal Production I	P/F
Total		21	Total		16/19

YEAR II
Semester I			Semester II
Code	Title	Cr.Hr	Code	Title	Cr.Hr
AnPr 301	Animal Breeding	3	AnSc 322	Research Methods in Animal Production	2
AnSc 331	Veterinary Parasitology	3*	AnSc 332	Draft Animal Production	2
AnSc 341	Applied Animal Nutrition	3*	AnSc 352	Practical Animal Production III	1
AnSc 351	Biometry	3	AnSc 441	Animal Health and Disease Control	3
AnSc 361	Range Ecology and Management	4	Educ 312	General Teaching Methodology	2
Ansc 371	Practical Animal Production II	1	AnSc 362	Swine Prod. and Management (E)	2
AgEc 321	Farm Management	3	Epsy 231	Educational Psychology	2
			AgEx 312	Agricultural Extension and Program Planning	3
			Educ 312	Instructional Media and Technology	2
Total		20	Total		17/19

YEAR III
Semester I			Semester II
Code	Title	Cr.Hr	Code	Title	Cr.Hr
AnSc 411	Beef Cattle Production and Management	3*	AnSc 412	Sheep and Goat Prod. and Management	3
AnSc 421	Poultry Production and Hatchery Management	4	AnSc 422	Apiculture	3
AnSc 431	Dairy Cattle Production and Management	3*	AnSc 432	Camel Production and Management	2
AnSc 441	Food Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health (E)	3	AnSc 442	Processing and Marketing of Livestock Products	3*
Epsy 332	Educational Measurement and Evaluation	2	AgEc. 492	Entrepreneurship Development	2
AnSc 451	Senior Sem

Agri Business Management