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Identification of Farmer’s Preferred Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L) Varieties in Southeastern Ethiopia

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Title Identification of Farmer’s Preferred Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L) Varieties in Southeastern Ethiopia
 
Creator Kemal, Seid Ahmed
 
Contributor Tadesse, Negussie
Aynewa, Yetseday
Bishaw, Zewdie
 
Subject farmers' selection
biomass yield
pvs
 
Description Participatory varietal selection (PVS) of durum varieties was conducted at Selka and Ilu Sanbitu kebeles in southeaster Ethiopia. Four released durum wheat varieties were evaluated on two farmers' fields per kebele (lowest administrative unit). Using farmers; selection criteria, cv Utuba was ranked first by male and female farmers at Ilu Sanbitu; while at Selka cvrs. Magnudo and Utuba were ranked first by female and male farmers, respectively. Mean seed yield of Utuba was the highest (3.6 t ha-1) among the cultivars, and at Selka itsyield was 5.6 t ha-1. Both female and male farmers participated in PVS and selected Utuba followed by Magnudo.
 
Date 2016-07-27
2017-03-12T21:56:01Z
2017-03-12T21:56:01Z
 
Type Newsletter
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/gLQ9cgqE
Seid Ahmed Kemal, Negussie Tadesse, Yetseday Aynewa, Zewdie Bishaw. (27/7/2016). Identification of Farmer’s Preferred Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L) Varieties in Southeastern Ethiopia. Amman, Jordan: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6405
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)