Food barley agronomy research
1996
Adamu Mola (Sheno Research Center Debre Birhan (Ethiopia)) | Amanuel Gorfu | Yeshanew Ashagrie | Zewdu Yilma
Sowing date experiments showed that optimum sowing time for food barley depends upon location, soiltype, varietal maturity period, and seasonal distribution of rain fall. Seed rates could vary due to soil type and method of covering. Fallowing did not appear economical at Bedi. Rotation of food barley with legumes and oil crops was found beneficial for grain yield of barley. At Holetta, linseed, field pea, faba bean, rapeseed or fodder oats were good precursor crops to barley. At Sheno vetch and faba bean were the best precursor crops. Fertilization of preceding crops showed no residual effect on succeeding barley. On vertisols at Adet, using improved drainage, double cropping of main season barley with chickpea on residual moisture was found beneficial. Tillage experiments on both red and black soils at Holetta showed that mould board plowing by a tractor in mid-March, or twice plowing by the local plow (marsha) after mid-April was beneficial for barley production. In drier areas at Mekele and Quiha frequent tillage by local plow showed no effect on both barley grain yield and moisture content of soil.
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