Abstract            Volume:13  Issue-9  Year-2025         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Pre-extension demonstration of soil test based recommended fertilizer rate for bread wheat was conducted Chora districts of Buno Bedele Zone in 2020 cropping season. The main objectives of the study were to evaluate yield performance and profitability of soil test crop response based phosphorus fertilizer recommendation and to create awareness on site specific crop response fertilizer recommendation rate of bread wheat under farmers’ condition. Two treatments: blanket recommendation/farmers’ practice and soil test based crop response P-fertilizer recommendation rate were used with improved bread wheat (Liban) variety. The demonstration was conducted on one FTCs and 10 hosting farmers’ fields by considering FTCs and farmers’ fields as replication. The trial was conducted on a single plot of 12 m x 20 m area for each treatment with the spacing of 20cm between rows using recommended seed rate of 125 kg/ha and recommended N-fertilizer rates of 138 kg/ha for Chora Districts. Field visit was organized for a total of 59 participants during physiological maturity of the crop. The highest mean grain yield was obtained from soil test based fertilizer recommendation rate with more than 84.5 % yield advantage over blanket fertilizer recommendation. Similarly, the economic analysis result shows that the highest average net income (29012.7ETB) was obtained from the soil test based fertilizer recommended rate. Hence, the pre-scaling up of soil test based P fertilizer recommendation rate for bread wheat should be carried out in the coming main cropping season in the study areas.

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