Demonstration and promotion of improved crop (bread
1. Demonstration and Promotion of improved crop (bread
wheat, food barley & faba bean) Technologies in
Gumara-Maksegnit watershed
By
Andualem Tadesse
December, 2012
2. Introduction
• Farmers in the watershed are cultivating traditional,
low yielding and disease and pest susceptible varieties
for most of the crops.
• Despite the availability of improved high yielding and
disease and pest resistant and drought tolerant
varieties developed by NARS and ICARDA, farmers did
not get the opportunity to grow these varieties.
• Thus, introducing high yielding and adaptable
improved crop varieties would increase farmers’
productivity and livelihood.
3. Introduction (Cont.)
• The project conducted PVS trials on food barley, bread
wheat and faba bean crops in the 2010 cropping
season.
• Vars. selected
Food barley- Estayish and Misrach vars.
Bread wheat- Tay, Alidor and Jiru vars.
Faba bean- Degaga, Welqi and Moti
4. Objectives
Then demonstrating and promoting the selected
vars. was conducted to:
• Increase farmers’ productivity by introducing and
adopting improved crop varieties
• Enhance farmers’ and development agents’ capacity in
crop production and management
5. Methodology
• Demonstrated vars.- ‘Tay’ of bread wheat, ‘Estayish’ of food
barley, and ‘Degaga’ of faba bean
Crop type Seed rate: Fertilizer rate:
Bread wheat 150 kg/ha 100 kg/ha DAP and 125 kg/ha Urea
Food barley 125 kg/ha 100 kg/ha DAP and 100 kg/ha Urea
Faba bean 100 kg/ha 100 kg/ha DAP
• Urea for bread wheat applied in 2 split (at planting and
after first weeding) while for food barley it was applied at
planting at once
• All other agronomic practices were done by farmers based
on the recommendation with close assistance from Das
and researchers
6. Methodology (Cont.)
• No. of participant farmers 60 (20 for bread wheat, 20
for food barley & 20 for faba bean )
• Plot size: 50 m x 50 m on each farmers field (total 15
ha)
• FREG established
• Training to 100 farmers (13 female), and 7 extension
personnel (2 female) about production technologies
and management of crops
• A total of 162 one page production manual in each
crop type were prepared and distributed
• Field days held
7. Methodology (Cont.)
Data collected
• Farmers feedback
• Sample grain yield collected from demonstration plots
& neighboring farmers plots
• Economic data
• Simple descriptive statistics was used to analyze the
collected data
• CIMMYT partial budget and sensitivity analysis were
used to do cost-benefit analysis
8. Results & discussion
Table 1. Grain yield and yield advantage of improved
bread wheat variety (Tay) over farmers’ variety
Yield from Yield from Yield Yield
Farmers demonstratio neighborin advanta advanta
n plots (t/ha) g field ge (t/ha) ge(%)
(t/ha)
Legesse 3.24 2.20 1.04 47.2
Adugna
Hone 3.65 2.75 0.9 32.72
Awoke
Lakew 3.43 2.60 0.83 31.92
Awoke
Gizat 2.89 2.24 0.65 29.01
Awoke
Mean 3.30 2.45
9. Results & discussion (Cont.)
Table 2. Grain yield and yield advantage of the improved
food barley variety (Estayish) over the local variety
Yield from Yield from Yield Yield
Farmer demonstrat neighbori advantag advanta
ion plots ng field e (t/ha) ge(%)
(t/ha) (t/ha)
Eyayu 2.2 1.6 0.6 37.5
Tadesse
Mulu 2.9 2.2 0.7 31.8
Berihun
Tiget 2.4 1.7 0.7 41.2
Dessalegn
Dessie 2.6 1.8 0.8 44.4
Gebru
Mean 2.53 1.83
10. Results & discussion (Cont.)
Table 3. Grain yield and yield advantage of the improved
faba bean variety (Degaga) over the local variety
Yield from Yield from Yield Yield
Farmers demonstrat neighbori advanta advanta
ion plots ng field ge (t/ha) ge (%)
(t/ha) (t/ha)
Melkamu 1.71 1.32 0.39 29.5
Getu
Mesafint 1.29 0.98 0.31 31.6
Ambachew
Alew Kebede 1.24 0.98 0.26 26.5
Birhanu 1.34 0.86 0.48 55.8
Ebabu
Mean 1.395 1.035
11. Results & discussion (Cont.)
Partial budget analysis was done using
– Current fertilizer prices
– Current wage price
– Current farm gate price of the grain at planting
for each crop
– Current farm gate price of the grain at harvest
for each crop
– Yield adjusted down by 10% to more accurately
reflect yields obtained under farmers’ harvesting
and threshing
13. Field day participants
• In the field days organized in 2011 on food barley technology 29
farmers, 13 extension workers, 8 researchers participated
• In a field day conducted in 2012
65 farmers (7 female),
7 extension workers (2 female),
G/z district administrator delegate and
4 journalists participated and
the occasion has been broadcasted on Mass media
14. Farmers’ feed back
• Farmers evaluated
• Bread wheat (earliness, biomass, spike length, stalk
strength, seed size and seed color)
• Food barley (Earliness, number of rows per spike, plant
biomass, tillering capacity and water logging
resistance)
• Faba bean (pod setting ability, 3-4 numbers of seeds per
plant, and strong stalk)
17. Any one who want this improved variety in the next cropping season?
18. Conclusion
• This experiment was initiated to familiarize
farmers in Gumara-Maksignet watershed with
improved crop varieties with their production
package
• It was observed that farmers participation in
variety selection has paramount importance
19. Conclusion (cont.)
• The field observations and simple statistical
analysis done showed that the varieties are
better and from farmers feedback relatively fitted
farmers’ interest
• So, Gondar zuria district agriculture office and
other stakeholders should take over the
responsibility from GARC and further scale out
the technologies
20. Lesson learned
• PTS makes adoption and dissemination of
certain technologies easy
• To facilitate the rate of adoption, research
and extension should be demand driven and
market oriented
• Linkage between major stakeholders in
technology transfer has paramount
importance
21. Way forward
• Those varieties which were selected by
farmers should be scaled out for wide scale
production
• Strengthening participatory research
approach
• Test other varieties/technologies in the
watershed
