Barley poduction and research
1996
Berhane Lakew | Hailu Gebre | Fekadu Alemayehu (IAR, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))
Despite its long history of cultivation and wide range of uses in different communities the yield of barley is very low (1.0 t ha-1). The major production constraints of barley include diseases (such as scald, netblotch, spot blotch, rusts and smuts), insect pests (such as Russian wheat aphid and barley fly), poor soil fertility poor soil drainage, frost and moisture stresses. Barley research in Ethiopia started at the Debre Zeit Research Center in 1955. Since 1967 the IAR is coordinating barley improvement efforts. Currently, research on barley is being carried out at seven research centers and sub-centers with several testing sites representing the major barley growing regions. The research program follows a multi-disciplinary approach. Several high yielding food and malting barley varieties with their appropriate production packages are released. At present some of them are under production. Research on barley has several setbacks, which include inadequate research centers, shortage of trained work force and facilities and slow transfer of technologies.
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