MART-AZR Project Research Report 12: Farmer-Managed Trials in the Kovak Valley, Baluchistan: The Effect of Variety and Addition of Fertilizer on Wheat Production
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C. Talug, Arshad Ali, G. Farid Sabir, Deborah Rees, Nagy J. G, M. B. A Chowdry, M. Aslam. (1/1/1988). MART-AZR Project Research Report 12: Farmer-Managed Trials in the Kovak Valley, Baluchistan: The Effect of Variety and Addition of Fertilizer on Wheat Production. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Abstract
In seven years out of ten, dryland farmers in upland
Baluchistan do not receive sufficient rains from the summer
monsoon for' autumn wheat sowing, yet they have only one
variety for both spring and autumn sowing. Farmer-managed
trials comparing an "improved" spring wheat variety with
this local facultative winter type with and without the
addition Pt fertilizer (60 kg/ha phosphate as 46% triple
superphosphate mixed with the seed at planting time) were
conducted, in the spring of 1987 in Kovak valley.
Rainfall during the growing season was only 172 mm, of
which 108 mm fell in March. The "improved" variety gave
somewhat more grain yield than the local (348 and 304 kg/ha
respectively), and responded significantly (P
