Participatory Demonstration and Evaluation of Improved Variety of Tef in Selected Districts of West and Kellem Wollega Zones
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2017
Pages:
143-146
Received:
28 November 2016
Accepted:
9 February 2017
Published:
24 October 2017
Abstract: The trial was carried out during 2013 and 2014 cropping seasons in Hawa Gelan and Dale Sedi districts on 14 farmers' field by selecting two peasant associations from each district based on their tef production potentials. Accordingly, Immo and Arere Gebi kebeles were selected from D/sedi district while Arere and Hawa Moi were from Hawa Gelan district. Three varieties (Quncho, Guduru and Ziquala) including local check were evaluated with the objective of selecting adaptable and best performing tef variety under farmers management. Analysis of variance was done across location and the combined analysis of the two districts was also undergone. In Dale Sedi district, the mean grain yields of Guduru and Quncho varieties were 10.43 and 8.39 qt/ha while the yield of Ziquala (6.70 qt/ha) was less than the local variety. Similarly in Hawa Gelan district the mean yields of Guduru (8.92qt/ha) and Quncho (7.76qt/ha) remained higher than the local check (6.56qt/ha). The yield of Ziquala (6.16qt/ha) was also less than the local. The combined analysis of variance revealed the mean values of grain yield ranged from Ziquala (6.44 qt/ha) to Guduru (9.68qt/ha). Quncho and the local gave 8.07 and 7.39 qt/ha respectively. Farmers’ selection criteria were grain yield and seed color. Based on their selection criteria, farmers preferred Guduru for grain yield and Quncho for grain yield plus its very white seeded color. Since, both varieties were preferred by the target community they are recommended to be scaled up.
Abstract: The trial was carried out during 2013 and 2014 cropping seasons in Hawa Gelan and Dale Sedi districts on 14 farmers' field by selecting two peasant associations from each district based on their tef production potentials. Accordingly, Immo and Arere Gebi kebeles were selected from D/sedi district while Arere and Hawa Moi were from Hawa Gelan distri...
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Multicultural and Intercultural Common Heritage in Transylvania
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2017
Pages:
147-157
Received:
18 February 2017
Accepted:
27 February 2017
Published:
31 October 2017
Abstract: The focus of this paper is the examination of multicultural and intercultural values along with the description of cultural heritage in order to support the hypothesis that these principles have an impact on educational cooperation practices and semantic features of cultural entities. The study presented in this paper will show that intercultural awareness is crucial, since a nation passes on its culture to its youth so as to preserve its national character for the future. My purpose is to develop consciousness of the Transylvanian people belonging to the Romanian, Hungarian and the Saxon cultures, as they became the melting pot of all these forces, merging the Transylvanian character in a truly national culture. Therefore, teaching and learning about intercultural communicative competence is a challenge to raise students’ awareness of their own culture, as well as to help them interpret and understand other cultures. It is not just a body of knowledge, but a set of practices requiring information, skills, attitudes which make what culture is: language that maintains discourse relations by providing, in a concise way, an ocean of information about how people conceptualize the world around them.
Abstract: The focus of this paper is the examination of multicultural and intercultural values along with the description of cultural heritage in order to support the hypothesis that these principles have an impact on educational cooperation practices and semantic features of cultural entities. The study presented in this paper will show that intercultural a...
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