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On-Farm Evaluation of Pearl Millet Varieties in Malawi for Farmer Preferences, Grain Yield, and Food Quality Traits

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Title On-Farm Evaluation of Pearl Millet Varieties in Malawi for Farmer Preferences, Grain Yield, and Food Quality Traits
 
Creator Chintu, E M
Monyo, E S
Gupta, S C
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Dunng the 3993194 season two rypes ofon.fann rnah (research-managed and
fanner.ma~ged], were conducred in 66 janners' fields tn the Shtre Vallq to
veniy crop perfonnance and to expose new uanerles to the farming community
Both inair were lmplemenred by farmers Three new pearl miller varieties
(SDMV 89004, SDMV 89005, and ICMV 88908j and rwo controls (N~genan
Compostre-rail [NC rail], and farmers' local landrace vaneties [LLl'jj were
e~,aluatedjorplanta nd gram traits preferred by farmers, yield porenrral, andfor
thetr acceptablltty as food.
Varrerv SDM 1'89004 had the hia-herr n-raln v.~elds I 95 r ha ' when research.
managedand I 47 f ha ' whenjarmer.ma~ged Under research-management rhe
three test vanerier and NC-tall 'aer,ion ned szmilarlv and were suoerior ro the LLV
used, whereas, under jarmer.managed ma&, rhr rhrer terr wnerles produced
s~milar~ieldthsa t were supenor to both NC.ral1 and the LLV
Ofthe 164 farmers who evaluated the pearl millet on.fann trraLforplant and
groin rraits, the malonty preferred iCMV 88908 as rhe~rfavonref,o llowed by
SDMV 89004, and SDMV 89005 based on field obsen,ations All the tmriprtes
uer? ranked berrer than the LLVfor
 
Date 1996
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4743/1/CP_1066.pdf
Chintu, E M and Monyo, E S and Gupta, S C (1996) On-Farm Evaluation of Pearl Millet Varieties in Malawi for Farmer Preferences, Grain Yield, and Food Quality Traits. In: Drought-tolerant crops for southern Africa: Proceedings of the SADC/ICRISAT Regional Sorghum and Pearl Millet Workshop, 25-29 July 1994, Gaborone, Botswana.