On-farm evaluation of alternative bread wheat production technologies in Northwestern Ethiopia

One hundred and twenty eight (128) on-farm demonstrations on Improved Production Technology (IPT) for black gram were carried out in eighty (80) hectares of farmer’s fields in Sankarankovil, Vasudevanallur and Kuruvikulam blocks of Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu from 2010-11 to 2012-13 under Tamil Nadu – Irrigated Agriculture Modernization and Water Bodies Restoration and Management (TN-IAMWARM) project. Two methods viz., Improved Production Technologies (IPT) and Conventional Method (CM) were compared. The results revealed that the adoption of Improved Production Technologies IPT) favorably influenced yield attributes and yield of black gram. The maximum seed yield (1,053 kg ha-1) obtained from IPT which was higher than conventional method (720 kg ha-1). The best net income ( 25,650) and benefit:cost (2.60) were also associated with IPT than conventional method of black gram cultivation. The additional income of 11,762 ha-1 was obtained from IPT over Conventional Method of black gram cultivation.

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Technology Development and Farmer Groups: Experiences From Botswana

Experimental Agriculture ◽

10.1017/s0014479700016173 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 321-331 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

D. Norman ◽

D. Baker ◽

G. Heinrich ◽

F. Worman

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Improvement Project ◽

Group Management ◽

Technology Improvement ◽

Production Technologies ◽

Farmer Groups ◽

Set Up ◽

On Farm ◽

Management Issues

SUMMARYThe Agricultural Technology Improvement Project (ATIP) has been conducting on-farm research in Botswana with the goal of identifying improved arable production technologies. In an effort to increase the role of farmers in technology design and assessment, ATIP set up farmer groups that meet on a regular basis to discuss farming problems and on-farm trials. This article reviews and evaluates ATIP's experiences with farmer groups. A typology of technology development groups is proposed and group management issues are discussed.

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On‐farm dynamic management of genetic diversity: the impact of seed diffusions and seed saving practices on a population‐variety of bread wheat

Evolutionary Applications ◽

10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00257.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (8) ◽

pp. 779-795 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Mathieu Thomas ◽

Elise Demeulenaere ◽

Julie C. Dawson ◽

Abdul Rehman Khan ◽

Nathalie Galic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

Bread Wheat ◽

Dynamic Management ◽

Seed Saving ◽

On Farm ◽

The Impact

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SHiNeMaS : A web tool dedicated to seed lots history, phenotyping and cultural practices

10.21203/rs.2.21522/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yannick De Oliveira ◽

Laura Burlot ◽

Isabelle Goldringer ◽

Darkawi Madi ◽

Pierre Rivière ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bread Wheat ◽

Management System ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Database Management System ◽

Web Tool ◽

Related Data ◽

Participatory Breeding ◽

Cultivated Plant ◽

History Of ◽

On Farm

Abstract Motivation In 2005, researchers from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, INRAE) started a collaboration with the French farmers' seed network Réseau Semences Paysannes (RSP) on bread wheat participatory breeding (PPB). The aims were: (1) to study on-farm management of crop diversity; (2) to develop population-varieties adapted to organic and low inputs agriculture (3) to co-develop tools and methods adapted to on-farm experiments. In this project, researchers and farmers' organizations needed to map the history and life cycle of the population-varieties using network formalism to represent relationships between seed lots. All this information had to be centralized and stored in a database. Results We describe here SHiNeMaS (Seeds History and Network Management System) a web tool with its database. SHiNeMaS aims to provide useful interfaces to track seed lots history and related data (phenotyping, environment, cultural practices). Although SHiNeMaS has been developed in the context of bread wheat participatory breeding program, the database has been designed to manage any kind of cultivated plant species and even mix of species at the field. SHiNeMaS is available under Affero GPL licence and uses free technologies such as Python language, Django framework or PostgreSQL database management system (DBMS). Conclusion We developed SHiNeMaS, a web tool with its database, dedicated to the management of the history of seed lots and related data like phenotyping, environmental information and cultural practices. SHiNeMaS is used in production in our laboratory for 5 years now and farmers' organizations facilitators manages their own information in the system.

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Factors influencing Adoption of improved bread wheat technologies: a double hurdle approach in Northern Ethiopia

10.21203/rs.3.rs-275768/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Negussie Siyum ◽

Almaz Giziew ◽

Azanaw Abebe

Keyword(s):

Bread Wheat ◽

Wheat Variety ◽

Household Head ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Northern Ethiopia ◽

Wealth Creation ◽

Wheat Varieties ◽

Double Hurdle ◽

On Farm ◽

Bread Wheat Variety

Abstract This study was conducted in Meket District, Amhara National Regional State, in northern Ethiopia. Cross-sectional data collected from 214 randomly selected farm households via a structured interview protocol was used for the study. Double-hurdle model was to identify factors affecting the probability of adoption and intensity of use of improved bread wheat varieties and associated technologies in the study area. The first hurdle of the model suggests number of oxen owned by household, mobile phone ownership, education level of the household head and access to extension services significantly affected the probability of any improved bread wheat variety adoption. The intensity of improved bread wheat variety adoption was significantly associated with ownership of main plots, participation in on-farm demonstrations, perception towards shattering problems of local bread wheat varieties, and annual income of household. The findings of this study highlight the importance of economic(such as number of oxen) and institutional(such as access to extension) factors related to agricultural extension and communication, the participation of farmers in on-farm demonstrations, wealth creation and acknowledging farmers’ perception regarding improved bread wheat variety attributes. Development interventions should strive to target such economic, institutional, and psychological factors to promote wider adoption of improved bread wheat technologies.

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On‐Farm Investigation of Seeding Rate for Wide‐Row Wheat Production in Northwest Ohio

cftm ◽

10.2134/cftm2015.0204 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-3 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eric Richer ◽

Laura E. Lindsey

Keyword(s):

Seeding Rate ◽

Wheat Production ◽

On Farm

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Effect of on-farm testing on adoption of banana production technologies among smallholder farmers in Meru region, Kenya

Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies ◽

10.1108/jadee-04-2021-0100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Florence Kaumi Kirimi ◽

Charles Nyambane Onyari ◽

Lucy Karega Njeru ◽

Hezron Rasugu Mogaka

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Service Providers ◽

Survey Design ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Content Type ◽

Banana Production ◽

Production Technologies ◽

On Farm

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of on-farm testing on the adoption of banana production technologies among smallholder farmers in the Meru region, Kenya.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a pragmatic paradigm and a cross-sectional survey design, sampling 370 and 30 farmers proportionately from 269,499 to 19,303 smallholder banana farmers in Meru and Tharaka-Nithi Counties of Kenya, respectively.FindingsThe study revealed that there was an association between belonging to a banana farming testing group and the adoption of banana technology. The study also revealed that most farmers were not interested in adopting banana technologies as they preferred the use of conventional methods, due to unstable market prices, lack of subsidized banana production input, inaccessibility to technological materials, few extension experts and lack of enough demonstrations.Research limitations/implicationsSome respondents were not willing to freely offer the information required for this study. This was delimited by assuring the informants of the confidentiality of their responses.Originality/valueThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The agricultural extension service providers will have more light on the underlying issues that need to be considered if meaningful interventions are to be done on various aspects of the banana value chain.

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