A one day workshop on Natural Resource Management (NRM) was held on December 17, 2009 at EIAR Hiruy Hall. Dr. Tolossa Debelle, Soil and Water Research Director of EIAR stated in his welcoming speech that the Workshop is timely and essential

A one day workshop on Natural Resource Management (NRM) was held on December 17, 2009 at EIAR Hiruy Hall. Dr. Tolossa Debelle, Soil and Water Research Director of EIAR stated in his welcoming speech that the Workshop is timely and essential, and that, the experience sharing workshop helps to identify priority areas and related initiatives and projects that need to be addressed to foster research for the development of NRM technologies and information in Ethiopia. Dr. Tolossa explained that the earlier Ethio-Japan cooperation in agricultural research and development along with present activities enable to address top priority NRM problems that are identified by the Tokyo University of Agriculture in collaboration with the EIAR. He emphasized that the active involvement of participants, decision makers, researchers and experts from different partners and collaborators is helpful to solve NRP problems.

Mr. Toshio Sugura, Counselor Deputy Head of Mission from Japan Embassy officially opened the Workshop. He explained the commitment and the assistance of the Japan.