GANA A.S., MAJI A.T., NDARUBU A.
Abstract
Farmers' participatory varietal selection (PVS) is a tool that facilitates varietal selection and adoption by farmers. In this study farmers were allowed to evaluate two sets of trials in two different locations. The first set was the varieties used in the advanced yield trials for both the upland and rain fed lowland ecologies. Here farmers were asked to select the best three varieties and give reason for their selections. Another set was the evaluation of five varieties that are at pre-released stage. Nine farmers participated in this exercise ranking the varieties according to preference. In the first category FARO 39 and ITA 324 were the best choices of farmers for the upland and rain fed lowland respectively while in the second category WITA 4 ranked the best among farmers preference.
Key words:
Farmers, participatory, rice, selection and grain yield.