Agrotechnology

Jimma Agricultural Research Center, Department of horticultural crops, Jimma, Ethiopia

Biography

Participatory Variety Selection for Enhanced Promotion and Adoption of Improved Potato (Solanumtuberosum L) Varieties in Southwest Ethiopia, Jimma Agricultural Research Center, Department of horticultural crops, Jimma, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Participatory Variety Selection for Enhanced Promotion and Adoption of Improved Potato (Solanumtuberosum L) Varieties in Southwest Ethiopia
  Author(s): Neim Semman* and Tewodros Mulualem
  
  Participatory variety selection is an approach which provides a wide choice of varieties to farmers to evaluate in a given varieties for their own environment to increase production. It enhances farmers’ access to diverse crop varieties, increases production and ensures food security and helps faster dissemination and adoption of released varieties. It allows varietal selection in targeted areas at cost-effective and timely manner and helps promotion of community seed production and seed banks. This experiment was designed to conduct potato participatory variety evaluation and selection at southwestern Ethiopia on farmers’ farm land to overcome production problem supplying three newly released potato varieties namely; Belete, Gera and Shankala. At different locations, each variety performed differently. Accordingly, farmers selected according to their performance i.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9881.20.9.198

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