Abstract
The study was focused on demonstration of bread wheat technologies major wheat growing area in east Hararghe .The objectives were to evaluate and demonstrate improved bread wheat variety with their production package to the farmers and assess farmers’ feedback towards improved bread wheat technology. The activity was conducted in main cropping season 2019-2020 for two year at Jarso and Metta districts. A total of fourty (40) trial farmers were selected from two potential bread wheat growing Districts (Jarso and Metta). Four FRG having 60 farmers were established. Two improved bread wheat varieties along with local check (Senate, Liban and Local) were planted on the plot of 10mx10m per trial farmers. Yield data, economic data, farmers’ perception and preferences were collected and yield data were analyzed by using ANOVA. The results of ANOVA showed that yield of improved bread wheat showed statistically significant at 0.01% the probability level of between improved and local treatments. The yield performance of the improved varieties (Senate,Liban and local) were 36.83, 30.27 and 25.47 qt/ha at Afgug and 39.14,33.23 and 28.35 qt/ha at Dursitu Bilsuma respectively. Farmer preference of improved & local variety with improved management ranks Sennate 1 st and Liban 2 nd at both Jarso and Metta respectively. Generally, sennate with recommended package showed higher yield advantage than liban and local. Therefore senate variety it is recommended for further scaling up. Keywords: Bread Wheat, Demonstration, Senate, Liban,Metta and Jarso DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/112-04 Publication date: January 31 st 2022
Highlights
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is mainly cultivated by small scale farmers in Ethiopia
Training was organized to participating farmers before commencing the trial Multidisciplinary researchers ; crop, extension and socio-economic discipline and other stakeholders (Offices of Agriculture and Natural Resource) actively participated by sharing their experience and knowledge about bread wheat production, management, postharvest handling and marketing and journalists for the sake of publicity of the work done
Results of Knowledge Test A simple knowledge test items were developed based on the contents of training and production package practices and knowledge level of participant farmers regarding improved bread wheat production technologies was measured before and after implementation
Summary
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is mainly cultivated by small scale farmers in Ethiopia. It ranks fourth in area coverage next to teff, maize and sorghum, respectively. The area under wheat production is estimated to be about 1.6 million hectares, which makes the country the largest wheat producer in sub-Saharan Africa (Bishaw, Z., 2011). Wheat is an important staple food crop in Ethiopia, especially in urban areas It is a staple food in the diets of several Ethiopian, providing about 15 percent of the caloric intake for the country’s over 90 million population (FAO 2015a). After South Africa, Ethiopia is the second largest wheat producer in sub-Saharan Africa (FAO 2015b).Despite substantial increases in wheat area, 33% of the national demand is fulfilled by imports and food aids. This proposal initiated to demonstrate and promotes improved bread wheat varieties in the study areas
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