Haymanot Awgchew Ajersa was born on Nov 5, 1987 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He attended his elementary education at the Brihanina Selam Elementary School from 1994 to 1999 and he joined the Yekatit 23 Junior Secondary School in 2000. After two years, he enrolled the Kolfe Comprehensive Senior Secondary School and by the year 2005 he completed his preparatory session at the Addis Ketema Preparatory School, Addis Ababa. Then, he obtained his BSc degree in Agriculture, Plant Science, from the Hawassa University on July 11, 2009.

Soon after graduation, September 2009, he was employed by the Debre Birhan University as a Graduate Assistant and he thought undergraduate courses to agricultural science students up to June 2011. In October 2011, he joined the School of Graduate Studies of Haramaya University, to pursue his postgraduate study in the field of Soil Science.