The experiment was conducted during 2019 and 2020 growing seasons at wondogenet and wondo. Six potato varieties were tested using randomized complete block design with three replications using mother-baby trial approach. All necessarily data were collected from the mother trial and analyzed using SAS software and SPSS. The combined analysis of variance showed the presence of significant differences (p≤0.05) among tested varieties for plant height, tuber diameter and tuber yield per hectare. The highest tuber weight per plant was harvested from Gudane variety (1.68) which was statistically similar with Jalene (1.49) variety but Dagim variety was gave the lowest (0.30) which was statistically similar with Gera (0.75) variety. Gudane variety gave the highest tuber yield per hectare (33.67) which had no statistically difference with the yield obtained from Jalene variety (30.67) while the lowest (14.05) was recorded from Dagim variety. The participated farmers have given a rank for the traits used for selection and evaluated the varieties using their own selection criterias. As a result, based on their preferences Gudane, Jalene and Guassa varieties were selected as the first, second and third choices. Therefore, scaling up of these selected varieties should be done in the study area and areas with similar agroecologies so that producers can able to access the variety to the farmers resulted in overcoming food insecurity.

Tomato is one of the vegetable crops of worldwide demand because of its various purposes including nutritional and medicinal values. It produced in Ethiopia largely for domestic consumption by small scale farmers and private producers. Tomato production and productivity affected by biotic and abiotic factors. Water quality and deficit irrigation has been considered as factor in its production, yield and quality as reported by many authors worldwide. Salinity, toxicity of heavy metals, temperature, microorganisms and presence of organic matters are some concern of water quality that influence tomato yield and quality. Use of municipal waste water for irrigation enhances toxic elements that further affect human health and several reports indicated that industrial waste water has to be treated before using for irrigation. Irrigation management practices such as amount, time of application and frequency of water affect tomatoes yield and quality. Deficit irrigation with its several advantages affects negatively tomato yield but it increases fruit quality. Hence, based on reports of scientific findings, effects of these two factors reviewed in this paper for further information provision.