General Background

Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Energy Research Directorate is one of the five research Directorates under Tigray Agricultural Research Institute (TARI). The research directorate is mainly engaged in development-oriented research activities of different agricultural machineries and implements, post-harvest and feed processing technologies, renewable and biomass energy appliances.

Thematic (research) areas

• Pre harvest and harvest agricultural implements
• Post-harvest machineries and agro processing  sciences
•  Rural transportation
• Irrigation and water pump
• Biomass and renewable energy

Research pillar of the directorate

• Improve land and labor productivity
• Reduce post-harvest loss and human drudgery
• Reduce deforestation
• Import substitution
• Transforming conventional agricultural practices
• Create new job for land less youths
• Empower women