TY - PRO AU - Regassa Ensermu AU - Mohammed Hassena AU - Mwangi,W.M. AU - Verkuijl,H. ED - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) TI - Farmers' wheat seed sources and seed management in Chilalo Awraja SN - 92-9146-058-3 PY - 1999/// CY - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) PB - CIMMYT KW - Economic analysis KW - AGROVOC KW - Ethiopia KW - Management KW - Research projects KW - Seed production KW - Seeds KW - Social Welfare KW - Varieties KW - Genetic resources KW - Triticum KW - Plant breeding KW - CIMMYT N2 - The Ethiopian wheat breeding program can benefit from information gathered at the farm level to determine where farmers get the wheat seed they use, where they get seed when they decide to change varieties, how often they change varieties, and how they manage seed retained from their own fields. Data for the study described in this paper were collected in 1995 from 180 farmers in Chilalo Awraja. The most common seed source for wheat planted in 1995/96 season was seed retained from the previous year's crop, followed by seed from the local market and other farmers. The farmers who retained their own seed sought to ensure its purity by cleaning it at planting, storing it separately, having separate field or seed and threshing it separately. Other farmers and the local market were the main sources of seed of new varieties. The weighted average age of varietal turn over was 13 years. This indicates the need to strengthen wheat breeding, extension service, formal seed production and distribution ER -