Evaluation of Kabuli Chickpea Varieties for Adappting under Irrigation Production at Kobo, Ethiopia

The experiment was executed during 2019 – 2020 irrigation cropping season to evaluate adaptability and yield performance of kabuli type chickpea varieties with the involvement of farmers based on their preferences criteria. Ten improved varieties were laid out in RCB design with three replications for the mother trial and the baby trial, a single rep of mother trial, which was used for farmers’ preference selections. Data on days to maturity, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, number of branches, plant height, biomass, hundred seed weight and grain yield were collected and analyzed. The farmers evaluated and selected the varieties depending on their criteria's from the baby trial. The criteria’s were grain productivity, earliness, seed size and free from any diseases. Farmers’ selection was analyzed by Pair Wise and Matrix ranking method. The analysis of variance showed significant difference (P