Abstract

Adaptable Mung bean varieties to East Shewa zone of central rift valley of Oromia, Ethiopia were demonstrated to the farming communities in selected districts of Dugda and Adami Tulu Jiddo Kombocha. Varieties namely shewarobit, Beroda and Rasa N-26 were demonstrated with objectives of evaluating the yield performances of adaptable mungbean varieties under farmers’ conditions, to analyse the financial return of Mung bean production under farmers circumstances in the study areas, to improve farmers knowledge and skill on mung bean production and management and to create awareness about the importance of the technology to different stakeholders. Accordingly, twelve trial farmers were selected to establish the demonstration trials. The results indicate that there is no statistically significant yield difference at (p<0.05) between the varieties. Better yield was obtained from shewarobit Variety 12.1 ± 1.34 qt/ ha followed by Beroda (12.1 qt/ha) and Rasa N-26 (10.4) qt/ha respectively. Furthermore, in-terms of yield gap and technology index a minimum gap between the demonstration yield and the potential yield was recorded for all varieties, revealing a comparable performance and the feasibility of all demonstrated varieties under farmers’ circumstances in the study area. Yet, basing other parameters (Financial return, its yield advantage and farmers preference) further scaling up works on Shewarobit variety is recommended for similar agro ecologies Shewarobit variety has also less yield gap when compared with Rasa N-26 Variety.