Table 5 Ranking of some bread wheat variety traits as perceived by the farmers in the study areas
Traits | Districts | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sire | Dodota | Hetosa | Across | |||||
Mean rank | Rank | Mean rank | Rank | Mean rank | Rank | Mean rank | Rank | |
High yielding | 3.80 | 1 | 2.84 | 1 | 3.26 | 1 | 3.29 | 1 |
Early maturing | 3.96 | 2 | 5.32 | 5 | 5.08 | 5 | 4.80 | 3 |
Tillering capacity | 5.44 | 6 | 5.47 | 7 | 5.55 | 7 | 5.49 | 6 |
Plant height (tall) | 5.68 | 8 | 5.40 | 6 | 5.00 | 4 | 5.36 | 5 |
Grain weight | 5.35 | 5 | 5.86 | 8 | 5.71 | 8 | 5.65 | 7 |
Resistance to disease (rust) | 5.03 | 4 | 4.16 | 2 | 5.16 | 6 | 4.77 | 2 |
Resistance to shattering | 5.60 | 7 | 6.02 | 9 | 5.79 | 9 | 5.81 | 8 |
Baking quality | 5.44 | 6 | 5.24 | 4 | 4.53 | 2 | 5.06 | 4 |
Adaptation (drought, heat stresses) | 4.70 | 3 | 4.70 | 3 | 4.92 | 3 | 4.77 | 2 |
Kendall's W (significance) | 0.160 (0.000) | 0.250 (0.000) | 0.181 (0.000) | 0.165 (0.000) | ||||