ABSTRACT
Land resource degradation as a result of improper land management and severe soil erosion is considered to be one of the major threats to food security and the agriculture sector in the Amhara regional state. Productivity losses in this region are the result of soil degradation, associated loss of soil organic carbon and accelerated water depletion. Over-exploitation of land resources without returning the basic nutrients to the soil is an important factor that contributes most to poor productivity in the region. On-farm field experiments were conducted in the 2011 and 2012 cropping seasons to test the effects of compost and mineral fertilizer applications on bread wheat. Agronomic data, plant height, spike length, grain and biomass yields and seed weight were determined at harvest. The data was analysed using Statistical Analysis System (SAS) software. Whenever significant differences between treatments were detected mean separation was done using least significant difference (LSD).
