Demis Fikre Limeneh

Demis Fikre Limeneh
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research | EIAR · Department of Horticulture

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The goal of potato breeding is to develop widely adaptable, highly productive cultivars that farmers would prefer. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance and stability of potato varieties linking the preferences of smallholder farmers in rain-fed and irrigated environments. Using a randomized complete block design in three repl...
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The experiment was conducted to select the best yielder and widely adaptable white cumin genotypes across different testing environments during the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 main cropping seasons. Nine white cumin genotypes were evaluated in RCBD design using three replications at eleven environments. The combined mean performance recorded a highe...
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Potato is one of the most important and strategic crops, which enhance food security and economic benefits to the world and countries such as Ethiopia. Ethiopia has suitable conditions for the production of potatoes. A field experiment was conducted in the South Eastern highlands of Ethiopia to evaluate the performance of potato varieties for tuber...
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A field experiment was carried out in the meher season (July–November 2021 and 2022) at Kulumsa, Southeastern Ethiopia. Genetic diversity study among the available genetic resources is the most important step in improving crops through selection or hybridization. The aim of this study is to determine the magnitude of diversity among Ethiopian fenug...
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In Ethiopia, tomatoes are one of the most economically important vegetable crops. However, a number of factors, including a lack of improved and adapted tomato varieties, limit their productivity and production. A field study was conducted during the 2020 -2021 cropping season at Arsi areas, Tiyo, and Zuway Dugda districts and aimed to evaluate the...
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One of the fundamental goals of plant breeding is to evaluate genetic diversity in crop species, which aids in the development of breeding approaches. Therefore, this field experiment was conducted to assess mean performance, the genetic variability in garlic genotypes on bulb yield and related traits. The field evaluation of thirteen garlic genoty...
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Assessing the genetic diversity of crop species is one of the main objectives of plant breeding since it helps with the creation of breeding strategies. Thus, the purpose of this field experiment was to evaluate the genetic diversity and mean performance of garlic genotypes on bulb yield and associated variables. The field evaluation of nineteen ga...
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An experiment was conducted at Bekoji in southeastern Ethiopia during the 2021 and 2022 cropping seasons to evaluate different N and P fertilizer rates on agronomic performance, tuber yield, and economic profitability of potato tuber production. The treatments used consisted of four levels of nitrogen (0, 46, 92, and 138 kg ha-1) and phosphorus (0,...
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Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is the most widely cultivated bulb crop after onion had major place in spices and medicinal use and grown in diverse areas, grown in sunny and dry areas in a moderately humid and dry environment. In Ethiopia, garlic is the most extensively farmed crop, and it is an essential cash crop for small land holder farmers since i...
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One of the fundamental goals of plant breeding is to evaluate genetic diversity in crop species, which aids in the development of breeding approaches. Therefore, this field experiment was conducted to assess mean performance, the genetic variability in garlic genotypes on bulb yield and related traits. The field evaluation of thirteen garlic genoty...
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Developing potato varieties through hybridization is an effective breeding method to improve productivity and quality of potato. The aim of this study was to develop a late blight tolerant, high-yielding, and stable potato variety. In 2015/2016, the Adet Agricultural Research Center began a potato crossing and produced 3600 genotypes. The best perf...
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Experiments under field conditions were conducted in the Meher season from mid-July to December 2019 and 2020 at Kulumsa and Arsi Robe, Southeast Ethiopia. The study intended to evaluate white cumin accessions for agronomic and quality traits. Fifteen genotypes were laid out in a randomized complete block design in three replications. The analysis...
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The objective of this study was to assess the extent of variability of yield and yield-related traits, heritability, and genetic advances among Ethiopian coriander accessions. The experiment was conducted at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Southeast Ethiopia, during 2019- 2020 cropping seasons. Twenty-five Ethiopian coriander accessions were...
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A field experiment was conducted at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Southeast Ethiopia during the meher season (July to November 2019 and 2020) to evaluate the extent of variability, heritability, and genetic advance of eight yield and yield-related variables among 25 Ethiopian coriander accessions. A 5×5 simple lattice with two replica...
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Multi-environment trials were carried out at 3 locations in different black cumin growing zones of Ethiopia during June-December, 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 to select high yielding and adaptable genotypes for commercial production in Ethiopia. Ten advanced black cumin genotypes were evaluated with one standard check variety. The genotypes were arrange...
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to select high yielding and adaptable genotypes for commercial production in Ethiopia. Ten advanced black cumin genotypes were evaluated with one standard check variety. The genotypes were arranged in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The ANOVA revealed that the differences in seed yield among genotypes (G), environments (E)...
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The experiment was carried out under rain fed conditions for three consecutive years (2017–2019) from mid-June to mid-October at Bekoji and Kofele sub sites of Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia by using improved varieties to identify superior genotypes. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replic...
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The aim of the experiment was to determine the correlations between tuber yield and yield components and to measure the direct and indirect effects of yield components on tuber yield of potato genotypes. The experiment was conducted using eleven potato genotypes with one standard check variety (Belete) and a local check at Kulumsa Agricultural Rese...
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An apple tree pruning experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of pruning time on yield and quality of apple fruits at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Southeast Ethiopia, during the cropping seasons of 2019 and 2020, in two sets each year. Eight treatment combinations of two varieties (Ana and Princesa) and four times of pruning...
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The experiment was conducted at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center, Bekoji site during 2020-21. The experiment consisting of a total thirteen potato genotypes following randomized complete block design with three replications for analysis of variance, mean performance were computed. The analysis of genetic variance revealed that the sufficient va...
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Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) is one of the major vegetable crops grown in Ethiopia. In the 2018 rainy season, 31,400 tonnes of head cabbage was produced. Despite its importance, the productivity of cabbage in Ethiopia remains very low (6 t/ha) as compared to world (28.8 t/ha) and East Africa (16 t/ha). Low plant population was one of t...
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Onion is one of the most important vegetable crops in the world including Ethiopia. The field experiment was conducted in Arsi zone at Kulumsa Agriculture Research Center and Ziway Dugda districts under irrigation condition. A total of five improved onion varieties were evaluated in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications with the...
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important food crops worldwide including Ethiopia. The study was conducted at field condition to evaluate the performance of potato genotypes for their tuber yield and yield related traits at Bekoji from 2014 to 2015 under rain growing season in RCBD with three replication. The analysis of variance (...
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Potato is one of the most important crops in the farming system of Bekoji and Kofele in the cool highlands of Arsi where potato is usually grown biennially during the main and 'bulg' seasons. 'Belete' has been the dominant potato variety in these areas for the last ten years now and farmers prefer to grow this variety for its high productivity and...
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Development of recommendation on appropriate plant spacing is one of the important agronomic practices to increase the productivity of carrot. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to assess the response of carrot variety AU-18 to different inter-row spacing in 2018 and 2019 using irrigation. Three inter-rows spacing of 50, 75 and 100cm were...
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Black cumin is the major and the most important spice in Southeast highlands of Ethiopia. However, the yield of the crop is very low mainly due to lack of optimum plant density. A field experiment was done with the objective to assess the influence of different seed rates and inter-row spacing on yield and yield attributes of black cumin at Kulumsa...
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Field experiment involving five improved onion (Allium cepa L.) varieties and carried out at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center during the 2018 to 2019 cropping seasons under irrigated condition to identify the best performing variety for seed production to the target areas of Arsi Zone. The onion varieties included in the field experiment were (...
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Field experiment involving five improved onion (Allium cepa L.) varieties and carried out at Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center during the 2018 to 2019 cropping seasons under irrigated condition to identify the best performing variety for seed production to the target areas of Arsi Zone. The onion varieties included in the field experiment were (...
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The study was carried out at Guchi and Hulabera peasant association/Kebele of Kofale District west Arsi Zone, Oromiya Ethiopia. The study was carried with the intension to transfer the potato production technology to increase production. The district is among the potential area for potato production in the west Arsi Zone. From the two kebeles, 14 f...
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The experiment was conducted at Kulumsa, South East Ethiopia, using four levels of nitrogen (N) (0, 50,100 and 150 kg N ha À1) and four levels of phosphorus (P) (0, 35, 70 and 105 kg P 2 O 5 ha À1) fertilizers arranged in 4 Â 4 factorial arrangements in randomized complete block design with three replications. The available P was increased after ha...
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Onion is an important vegetable crop commercially grown both by large and small scale farmers in Ethiopia. Its production is highly dependent on availability of high and good quality seed, which is constrained by a number of problems including declining soil fertility and inappropriate fertilizer application. A study was conducted to investigate th...
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Onion is an important vegetable crop commercially grown both by large and small scale farmers in Ethiopia. Its production is highly dependent on availability of high and good quality seed, which is constrained by a number of problems including declining soil fertility and inappropriate fertilizer application. A study was conducted to investigate th...

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