Narrowing Yield gap in barley and faba bean through IPM-final project report

Abstract

The major activities of the last six months focused on research activities (field and laboratory) of graduate students, providing technical support to informal seed growers and preparing reports. Seed growers organized by the project were able to sell 5.7 tons of faba bean cv. Dosha; 14.5 t of food barley cvs. HB1307 and Agegnehu to farmers and Amhara Seed Enterprise from their 2015/16 cropping season harvest. During the intermediate wet season (referred locally as the “small” rainy season), 8 ha of malt barley cvs. Sabini, Holker and Bekoji 1 and 10 ha of one faba bean cv. Walki and in north Shoa by two district office of agriculture. Attempts were made to introduce common bean in the small rainy season to diversify cropping systems and one common bean vaeity was identfied that can be demeonatrtaed in the future