Soil Fertility Management Practices For Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Production in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Abstract

Understanding the soil fertility management practices is indispensable to improve faba bean productivity. However, little effort has been made to assess the soil fertility management practices of faba bean producing farmers of Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia. The study was conducted in Damot Gale and Sodo Zuria districts in Wolaita Zone to assess farmers’ soil fertility management practices for faba bean production, in 2019 on 310 framers. Faba bean productivity in the studied districts is majorly constrained by the scarcity of arable land, poor soil fertility, and soil acidity. These cumulative effects have caused negative consequences on soil fertility and faba bean productivity. In most soil fertility, management practices in faba bean farm did not significantly vary among the studied districts. The soil management practices by farmers were inadequate to improve soil fertility and to enhance faba bean productivity. Consequently, the average grain productions of both fertilized and unfertilized faba bean farm were far less than the national average. Therefore, intensive soil fertility management interventions such as faba bean residue management, crop rotation, application of sufficient and balanced fertilizers, adequate lime application, screening acidity tolerant varieties are required to improve faba bean productivity. in the studied districts.

Genetic Diversity of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Based on Local Knowledge and Inter Simple Sequence Repeats in North-East Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

“…A total of 144 informants for the structured interview were surveyed. The sample size was determined by power analysis, which alignment with previous studies (Abebe et al 2014;Asfaw et al 2013;Hailu et al 2014). Since the study was comparison study, there was no need to take samples which are proportional to the population in place signi cantly equal number from each strata with minimum design effect, by making it as random as possible and or by adding additional farmers from what it has to be (Balemie 2011).…”

“…Annually 574,060 hectares of land is covered by faba bean in Ethiopia with 943, 964 tons of seed production (Abebe et al 2014). Generally, Ethiopia is listed as one of the top nine favorable agro-geographical regions for its growth (Negash et al 2015;Hailu et al 2014).…”

“…The key informants has reported that even though "kormid" have very recent story it is causing severe infection on their faba bean. The "Kormid" is rst identi ed o cially as a biotic constraint of faba bean on the study area in north shewa in 2012 (Bitew 2015) since then frequently has been reported to be the major biotic constraints (Kora et al 2016;Hailu et al 2014;Abebe et al 2014).…”