This activity, Pre-extension Demonstration and Evaluation of Improved Rice Technology was carried out in the Ilu-Harar district, Jagan PA of the then Ilu-Ababora zone of Western Oromia on four (4) farmers and on 10*10 m2 plots of land for each. In addition; this activity was to address and achieve the following objectives; to demonstrate & evaluate improved rice technologies with FRGs, to create awareness of the importance of the commodity, to make better linkage with target beneficiaries and stakeholders, and finally to collect feedback on the performance of rice production technologies. Consequently, the activity was conducted for one year using two varieties; Chawaka and NERICA-1 as a standard check. Accordingly; the Chawaka variety beat the standard check in all of the traits except the time of maturity which takes a longer period than the standard check. To this end farm mean yield performance of the Chawaka and the standard check; NERICA-1 were 45.57 qt/ha and 31.30 qt/ha; respectively, and on average Chawaka had a yield advantage of 45.59 % over NERICA-1 and this implies that Chawaka had higher yield advantage than NERICA-1. Moreover; when comparing the potential of the varieties acquired up on release in terms of the potential gap existing between the performance of the technology/ variety on the research station versus demonstration yield on farmers’ fields there exists even similarity on the Chawaka variety but 7.2 qt/ha of yield reduction on NERICA-1 variety. Further; the statistical ANOVA table and mean yield comparison (t-test) results of on-farm yield performances showed that there is a highly significant difference at (p˂0.05) between the varieties demonstrated. Furthermore; in terms of profitability, the financial analysis result of the study also showed that using the Chawaka variety can make it more profitable than NERICA-1. Eventually; therefore, as the variety has met the intended criteria of the farmers and was selected as the best variety the pre-scaling up activity should follow next for a greater number of farmers and on a wider area in the coming years.
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Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Bako Agricultural Research Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
