equipment maintenance @ assosa
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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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