Double-cropping cereals with legumes is a usual practice by smallholder farmers in southern Ethiopia. However, crop compatibility and sequencing are the major problems for their soil fertility and profitability. Thus, it was useful to conduct experiments on double cropping systems that enable the farmers more profitable on small land to reduce crop failure with current climate change. Thus, an experiment was done to evaluate the effects of the common bean as double cropping on the productivity of tef and to evaluate the economic and technical compatibility of common bean-tef in a double cropping combination to improve production at Wondo Genete district during the cropping season of 2021 using RCBD design. The experiment consisting of twelve treatments including three common bean and three tef varieties was sowed as the preceding and succeeding crop respectively and three sole tef variety to see the compatibility of common bean and tef varieties. The preceding crops showed a non-significant difference in days to maturity, seed per pod, and hundred seed weight, but the biomass and grain yield of Remeda were significantly higher than Awash-2 however, it had no significant yield difference with Hawassa Dume. The variance analysis showed that all the growth and yield parameters of tef were significant such as days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, spike length, number of tillers per plant, tiller number, and grain yield (p<0.05). However, the yield parameters like dry biomass, straw yield, and toughened seed weight for tef had no significant difference.
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Double Cropping, Common Bean-Tef, Boset, Hawassa Dume
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Mola, H. G. (2024). Agronomic Evaluation of Common Bean and Tef (Eragrostis tef) Varieties in Double Cropping System. International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences, 10(5), 199-207. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijaas.20241005.12
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Mola, H. G. Agronomic Evaluation of Common Bean and Tef (Eragrostis tef) Varieties in Double Cropping System. Int. J. Appl. Agric. Sci. 2024, 10(5), 199-207. doi: 10.11648/j.ijaas.20241005.12
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Mola HG. Agronomic Evaluation of Common Bean and Tef (Eragrostis tef) Varieties in Double Cropping System. Int J Appl Agric Sci. 2024;10(5):199-207. doi: 10.11648/j.ijaas.20241005.12
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