Pre-scaling up of bread wheat variety (Danda’a) through FRG/FREG in Bale and West Arsi zones of Oromia national regional state, Ethiopia
Journal Title: Scientific Journal of Crop Science - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
The paper presents the success of pre-scaling up activity of the best-bet improved bread wheat variety (Danda’a) with recommended full packages in Adaba and Dodola districts of West Arsi Zone, and Sinana, Agarfa and Ginnir districts of Bale Zone of Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia in the year 2013/14 through the support of East African Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP) in multi-stakeholder approach. Generating, demonstrating, evaluating, validating, popularizing and disseminating improved bread wheat technologies to smallholder farmers are vital in facilitating adoption of these technologies. The objectives were to convince the merits and increase confidence on Danda’a variety, thereby to facilitate dissemination and adoption of the technologies through farmer-to-farmer extension approach, to change the outlook (KSA) and increase farmers motivation through participatory training on principles of wheat production and management practices/packages, to strengthen and enable farmers to produce quality seeds for their own use and disseminate the technology to their surrounding farmers (farmer-to-farmer seed dissemination system), to ensure the local availability of seeds of Danda’a variety for the majority of smallholders in the study area, to strengthening the established and create new FRGs/FREGs and to enhance linkage among the relevant stakeholders in the study zones.
Authors and Affiliations
Amare Biftu*| Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Sinana Agricultural Research Center, Bale-Robe, Ethiopia., Bekele Diriba| Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Sinana Agricultural Research Center, Bale-Robe, Ethiopia.
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- DOI 10.14196/sjcs.v5i3.2147
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