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Enumeration Area(EA)
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an enumeration area in the rural parts of the country is a locality that is, in most of the cases less than, and only in some cases equal to a farmers’ association in geographical area and usually consists of 150-200 households.
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Household
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a) a one person household, that is a person who makes provisions for his own living with out combining with any other person to form part of a multi- person household or b) a multi-person household, that is, a group of two or more persons who live together and make common provisions for food and other essentials of living. The persons in the group may pool their incomes and have a common budget to a greater or lesser extent. They may be related or unrelated persons or a combination of both. These persons are taken as members of the household.
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Agriculture:
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The growing of crops and/or raising of animals for own consumption and /or sale.
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Agricultural Household
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a household is considered an agricultural household when at least one member of the household is engaged in growing crops and/or raising livestock in private or in combination with others.
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Holding
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a holding is all the land and /or livestock kept, which is used wholly or partly for agricultural production and is operated as one legal entity by one person alone, or with others with out regard to management, organization, size or location.
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Holder
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a holder is a person who exercises management control over the operation of the agricultural holding and makes the major decision regarding the utilization of the available resources.
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Parcel
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a parcel of holding is any piece of land entirely surrounded by land and/or water and/or road and/or forest etc., which is not part of the holding. It may consist of one or more cadastral units, plots or fields adjacent to each other.
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Field
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a field is defined as any plot of land which is a parcel or part of a parcel under the same or mixed crops or any other form of private holding.
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Crop
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includes cereals, pulses, oilseeds, vegetables, root crops, fruits coffee, Enset, Chat, hops, sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, etc produced for food, making drinks, stimulation and making fabrics or clothing.
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Crop production
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the process of growing and harvesting of the above crops for own consumption and/or sale.
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Temporary/Annual Crops
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Annual/temporary crops are crops, which are grown in less than a year’s time, sometimes only a few months with an objective to sow or replant again for additional production following the current harvest. Continuously grown crops planted in rotation are also considered as temporary crops since each is harvested and destroyed by ploughing in preparation for each successive crop.
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Permanent (Perennial) Crops
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Crops, which are grown and occupy land for a long period of time, not requiring replanting for several years after each harvest, are considered as permanent crops. All fruit trees (i.e. oranges, mandarin, bananas, etc) and trees for beverages (i.e. coffee, tea, hops (Gesho), etc) are considered permanent crops but meadows and pastures are excluded.
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Meher (Main) Season Crop
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any temporary crop harvested between Meskerm (September) and Yekatit (February) is considered as meher season crop.
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Belg Season Crop
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any temporary crop harvested between the months of Megabit (March) and Nehase (August) is considered to be Belg Season Crop.
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