Abstract
A field experiment was conducted to identify the best adapted and high yielding lentil variety at Shishinda sub-testing site of Bonga Agricultural Research Center during 2012 main cropping season. The experiment was carried out in randomized complete block design with three replications. Eleven improved lentil varieties were used for this study. The varieties included in the study were Teshale, Alemaya, Alemtena, Assano, Gudo, EL-142, R-186, Ada’a, Derso, Chalew and Chekol. The parameters studied in this experiment were days to flowering and maturity, plant height, number of pods plant-1, number of seeds pod-1, thousand seeds weight and grain yield. The analysis of the experiment showed significant (p<0.05) differences among varieties for all studied parameters. The varieties Assano, Alemtena, Derso, EL-142, and Gudo were found to be high yielder with the value of 1.71, 1.59, 1.39, 1.36 and 1.31 ton ha-1, respectively. In addition, farmers were invited to evaluate the performance of the tested varieties under field condition. Eventually, the farmers selected Assano and Alemtena as the most preferred varieties. Therefore, these varieties can be suggested to use for wider production in the study area. The involvement of farmers in variety selection processes may increases the adoption of new variety in the area.
 Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 9(2): 9-14, December 2019
Highlights
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is one of the most important cool season food legumes grown in many parts of the world as food crop (Erskine et al, 2011)
Eleven improved lentil varieties were tested for adaptation and yielding performance at Shishinda sub-testing site of Bonga agricultural research center
Based on the finding of this study, the highest grain yield was produced by varieties Assano, Alemtena, Derso, EL-142 and Gudo with grain yield of 1.71, 1.59, 1.39, 1.36 and 1.31 ton ha-1, respectively
Summary
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is one of the most important cool season food legumes grown in many parts of the world as food crop (Erskine et al, 2011). Lentil is a cash crop gaining the highest price in domestic market compared to all other food legumes and major cereal crops (Bejiga et al, 1995). The crop has great importance in crop rotation because of its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen (Saxena and Wassimi, 1980). It is the most desired crop compared to other legumes because of its higher contents of protein, carbohydrate and calories (Muehlbauer et al, 1985; Iqbal et al, 2006). Lentil seed is heavily consumed in every day diet in the majority of people in Ethiopia (Hanelt, 2001)
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