eprintid: 10549
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creators_name: Ojulong, H
creators_name: Letayo, E
creators_name: Sakwera, L
creators_name: Ziwa, -
creators_name: Mgonja, F
creators_name: Sheunda, P
creators_name: Kibuka, J
creators_name: Otwani, D
creators_name: Audi, P
creators_name: Mgonja, M
creators_name: Manyasa, E O
icrisatcreators_name: Ojulong, H
icrisatcreators_name: Sheunda, P
icrisatcreators_name: Kibuka, J
icrisatcreators_name: Otwani, D
icrisatcreators_name: Audi, P
icrisatcreators_name: Manyasa, E O
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: Department of Research and Development (DRD), ARI-Hombolo (Dodoma)
affiliation: Ministry of Agriculture (Singida)
affiliation: Ministry of Agriculture (Iramba)
affiliation: DRD,Selian Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) (Arusha)
affiliation: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) (Tanzania)
country: Kenya
country: Tanzania
title: Participatory Variety Selection for enhanced promotion and adoption of improved finger millet varieties: A case for Singida and Iramba Districts in Central Tanzania
ispublished: pub
subjects: CR1
subjects: S1.5.2
subjects: T1
subjects: s28
divisions: CRPS5
full_text_status: public
keywords: Eleusine coracana, farmer preferred traits, Participatory Variety Selection, varieties, gender, Tanzania
note: The authors thank the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation (BMGF), a CGIAR Fund Donor, for
funding the work through Harnessing Opportunity
for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE) for millets
and sorghum in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
project. Our gratitude goes to the farmers for giving
in their time and resources to make the exercise
successful.
abstract: Participatory variety selection (PVS) is an approach which provides a wide choice of varieties to
farmers to evaluate in their own environment using their own resources for increasing production.
It enhances farmer’s access to diverse crop varieties, increases production and ensures food security
and helps faster dissemination and adoption of pre and released varieties. It allows varietal selection
in targeted areas at cost-effective and timely manner and helps promotion of community seed
production and community seed banks. Therefore, a variety developed through PVS usually meets
demand of different stakeholders. Farmers in Singida and Iramba districts in central Tanzania were
found to be growing land races which were low yielding, long maturing, drought and disease susceptible,
as no variety had previously been released in Tanzania. Through PVS a broader choice of varieties
that matched farmer needs in adaptation and quality traits was offered for evaluation. As such PVS was
used to introduce, evaluate, release and promote for adoption finger millet varieties in Central and
Northern Tanzania. Farmers selected and adopted new varieties of a higher utility (a combination of
improved agronomic traits, higher yield, and improved quality). Through PVS Tanzania released
her first finger millet varieties (U15 and P224). Adoption of the varieties was very high as farmers
associated with the varieties; and affordable high quality seed was made available as Quality Declared
Seed (QDS) produced by the target farmer groups. Preferred traits differed between the gender groups;
women preferred risk averting traits like short duration, drought tolerance, compact heads and
disease resistance while male preferred market related traits (high yield, brown colour and big head.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publication: African Journal of Rural Development
volume: 2
number: 1
publisher: Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
pagerange: 77-93
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2415-2838
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funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
projects: Harnessing Opportunity for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE) for millets and sorghum in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa project
citation:   Ojulong, H and Letayo, E and Sakwera, L and Ziwa, - and Mgonja, F and Sheunda, P and Kibuka, J and Otwani, D and Audi, P and Mgonja, M and Manyasa, E O  (2017) Participatory Variety Selection for enhanced promotion and adoption of improved finger millet varieties: A case for Singida and Iramba Districts in Central Tanzania.  African Journal of Rural Development, 2 (1).  pp. 77-93.  ISSN 2415-2838     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10549/1/Participatory%20Variety%20Selection%20for%20enhanced%20promotion.pdf