FRG Project (2004-2009) was implemented in the Central Rift Valley in collaboration among Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), JICA and Oromia Agricultural Research Institute (OARI) with two agricultural research centres at Melkassa (MARC) and Adami Tulu (ATARC). During the period, 40 FRG based researches projects were conducted with the involvement of 52 researchers, 105 extension personnel and 1433 farmers. Along with the development of several appropriate technologies such as modified moldboard plough, compaction at teff sowing, market information access through mobile telephone, etc., the project developed a    “Guideline           to Participatory Agricultural Research through Farmer Research Group for Agricultural Researchers”. In order to share the experiences gained at two centres with and scale out the FRG approach to other research institutions, EIAR and JICA agreed to implement a second phase of the project covering all the agricultural research institutions in the country.