Abstract:
The meeting was declared open by Dr. Samu Negus Hailemariam, the General manager of the Institute of Agricultural Research and the overall chairman for the meeting. The chairman opened the meeting by thanking the participants for their attendance and expressing the hope that the following three days would produce both papers and discussions that were stimulating. He then went on to apologise to the meeting and the opening speaker for the change in the programme. It had been hoped that the commissioner from the planning Commission would open the meeting but he had been otherwise committed. It was therefore a great honour and privilege for the chairman to introduce his excellency, Ato haile Lul Tebekie, the first commissioner of the newly established Science and Technology Commission.
