About the Authors

Desalegn Begna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dbegna67@gmail.com

Affiliation Agriculture and Rural Development Center, Policy Institute Study Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Girma Motuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Girma Motuma, Shambel Boki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Ambo University, Mamo Mezemir Campus, Guder, Ethiopia

Shambel Boki

Contributed equally to this work with: Girma Motuma, Shambel Boki

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Ambo University, Mamo Mezemir Campus, Guder, Ethiopia

Niguse Bekele

Roles Project administration, Resources

‡ NB, TK and AC also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, Ambo University, Mamo Mezemir Campus, Guder, Ethiopia

Tamiru Kuru

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ NB, TK and AC also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, Ambo University, Mamo Mezemir Campus, Guder, Ethiopia

Achalu Chimdi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ NB, TK and AC also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Soil Sciences, Ambo University, Mamo Mezemir Campus, Guder, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.