The maize pulse intercropping participatory experiment was conducted using randomised complete block design with three replications on three selected farmers’ fields for two years for the two districts of South Achefer and Jabitenan in 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. The faba bean treatements were improved varieties i.e Wolki, Moti, Tumsa, Dosha, Gebelcho, Degaga, Holetta-2, and Obse. The maize variety was QPM 545. The tested intercrops were planted on a pot size of 19.125m2 (5.1m *3.75m) with five rows of maize which are 75cm apart from each other and four rows of pulse in the middle of the maize rows, the spacing between the two adjacent bocks was 1m. For maize, recommended seed rate of 25kg/ha and fertilizer rate of 138/180kg/ha N P2O5 were used in the experiment. 100 kg DAP was used for the pulse crops. The performance of the tested intercrops on earliness, pod number, disease reaction, pod length and seed size were evaluated by farmers’ research groups at flowering and maturity stage using pair wise ranking method. Grain yield was collected from three central rows of each plot for maize and two central rows for pulses. ANOVA and LSD were analyzed using SAS version 9.0. Based on their rank disease tolerance was the first followed by pod number and pod length respectively. Whereas, earliness was the least followed by seed size. Welki from faba bean varieties was their first choices for both Jabitenan and Achefer districts. There was a significance difference in mean grain yield for both crops maize and faba bean. Variety Welki scored the highest mean grain yield 1202kg/ha besides, the intercropped maize scored the highest mean grain yield 7587 kg/ha. Variety Welki from faba bean is recommended.
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