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ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

AGRICULTURAL AND NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH

LABORATORY

Report

About first comprehensive laboratory Equipment maintenance

at

Assosa Agricultural Research Center

Hailu Reta

December 03/2015

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Back ground

In Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research under Agricultural and Nutrition Research

Laboratories Directorate there are more than fifty (50) laboratories which are equipped with

many different equipments/instruments from a simple scissors to more complex and advanced

laboratory devices. However these laboratories contain many types of equipments, most of the

equipments are not working or if they are working they are not giving valuable results. To solve

this very serious problem Agricultural and Nutritional Research laboratories Directorate has been

collaborated with the National Metrology Institute of Ethiopian specifically with the Scientific

Equipment Maintenance service. For the purpose of maintenance installation and check the

performance laboratories three experts of NMIE were gone Assosa Agricultural Research Center

starting from 23/03/08 up 07/04/08 and maintained almost 28 equipments.

List of equipments maintained S.no Items Quantity

1 Refrigerator 1

2 Shaking water bath 2

3 Mettle balance 1

4 Digital Soil moisture, temperature, and salinity meter 1

5 Digital balance 3

6 conductivity 1

7 PH meter 1

8 spectrophotometer 1

9 Fume hood 1

10 scrubber 1

11 Homogenizer for texture 1

12 furnace 1

13 Soil moisture, temperature 1

14 Water distiller 1

Extra maintained

S.no Items Quantity

15 Metter balance SG 1600 1

16 Black and white monitor Smm 930 1

17 Mettle balance 1

18 Digital soil moisture, temperature and salinity 1

19 PH meter(pocket) 1

20 Nitrogen distiller apparatus 1

21 vortex 1

22 incubator 1

23 Seed Germination 1

24 Flame photometer 1

25 Cold room 1

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Not maintained

No Items Quantity Remark

1 Insect trap table 1 No adaptor

2 Insectne cillapsiblew/extension 1 damaged

3 Light mouth collector 1 No accessory

4 Nitrogen distillation apparatus 1 Its body was damaged

5 Autoclave awlafe lock bench top 1 damaged

6 Photo synthesis system (pp

system ) 1 Hasn’t accessories

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