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Pre-Extension Demonstration of Newly Released Yam Variety (Bulcha) at Gedeo Zone, Dila Zuriya District, SNNPR, Ethiopia

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/easjnfs.2021.v03i06.001
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Yam is an important crop for food and nutritional security as a result of high productivity and richness in protein. But its economic, food and nutritional security benefits are becoming constrained due to inappropriate extension attention, poor agronomic practices, less research attention, and lack of improved variety. To overcome these problems, transferring available production improvement technology is one of the important measures. Therefore, this pre-extension demonstration of the new yam variety (Bulcha) was carried out with the objectives; to demonstrate and popularize new yam variety and to evaluate farmers' preference analysis. The demonstration hosted ten purposively selected farmers and one farmer training center. Awareness creation training was given for 10 beneficiary farmers and 11 other stakeholders. The new yam variety (Bulcha) was demonstrated with one local check on a plot size of 10m x 10m. Evaluated of the demonstration was conducted at mid maturity, maturity, and harvesting through field visit, field day, and FGD. Based on criteria of tuber color, disease-resistant, productivity, tuber size, and early maturity, farmers ranked the new variety but food taste was not accepted. Also, yield data were collected by harvesting tuber yield from a randomly selected sample area and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The improved variety has a 60% yield advantage over the local check. Thus, the new variety is recommended to scale up in Dila zuria district and other similar agro-ecologies. Therefore, extension personnel needs to work on expanding the technology and biological breeder need to work on food test improvement.

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