Onion is a bulb vegetable crop produced for its nutritional and economic benefit worldwide. Also, this crop is widely produced in Ethiopia for domestic consumption and also generate income for the producers. Even though it is produced widely the producers use unimproved varieties which does not meet the market preferences lower in yield. So, participatory variety selection through demonstration of four onion varieties was conducted at Wondo Genet and Heben Arsi districts during 2019/2020 to 2020/2021. The experiment was done to evaluate the varieties through farmers’ participation. It was conducted on station for researchers’ data collection by replicating three times and non-replicated plot basis for farmers’ evaluation. The Researcher data and farmers preferences toward the varieties were collected and analyzed using SAS software and pair wise ranking respectively. The result showed that there was significant difference among the varieties. The highest total bulb yield (38.57 t ha-1) was obtained from Nafis and the lowest (31.28 t ha-1) was from the Nasik red variety. Also, the maximum bulb diameter (5.26 cm) and bulb length (4.83 cm) were recorded from Nafis variety and the lowest bulb diameter and length was obtained from Nasik red variety. Pair wise raking of farmers preference also, shown that Nafis was the first and best variety according to their criterion at both locations. Therefore, based on the result obtained it is better and recommended to produce Nafis onion variety for the farmers of Wondo Genet and Heben Arsi districts and other similar agro-ecologies.
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Dadi Tolessa Lemma, Habtamu Gudisa Megersa, Dejene Tadesse Banjaw, Damtew Abewoy. (2022). Participatory Variety Selection of Improved Onion (Allium cepa L.) Varieties at Wondo Genet and Heben Arsi, Southern Ethiopia. Plant, 10(2), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.plant.20221002.11
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abstract = {Onion is a bulb vegetable crop produced for its nutritional and economic benefit worldwide. Also, this crop is widely produced in Ethiopia for domestic consumption and also generate income for the producers. Even though it is produced widely the producers use unimproved varieties which does not meet the market preferences lower in yield. So, participatory variety selection through demonstration of four onion varieties was conducted at Wondo Genet and Heben Arsi districts during 2019/2020 to 2020/2021. The experiment was done to evaluate the varieties through farmers’ participation. It was conducted on station for researchers’ data collection by replicating three times and non-replicated plot basis for farmers’ evaluation. The Researcher data and farmers preferences toward the varieties were collected and analyzed using SAS software and pair wise ranking respectively. The result showed that there was significant difference among the varieties. The highest total bulb yield (38.57 t ha-1) was obtained from Nafis and the lowest (31.28 t ha-1) was from the Nasik red variety. Also, the maximum bulb diameter (5.26 cm) and bulb length (4.83 cm) were recorded from Nafis variety and the lowest bulb diameter and length was obtained from Nasik red variety. Pair wise raking of farmers preference also, shown that Nafis was the first and best variety according to their criterion at both locations. Therefore, based on the result obtained it is better and recommended to produce Nafis onion variety for the farmers of Wondo Genet and Heben Arsi districts and other similar agro-ecologies.},
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