Abstract

Common bean has very importance in country economy such as for home consumption, soil fertility improvement and its improvement are highly challenged by diseases, insect pests and prolonged drought in Ethiopia. Different classes of common bean are there like market types, food types, climbing types, bush types, red, white, canning types etc. The experiment was layout in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications to identify the high yielding, biotic and abiotic resistance, or tolerance varieties. The trial was conducted at Dire Dawa and Harari Qile during the rainy season of 2018/9 and important data via: - plant height, pod per plants, seed per pod, number of branches per plants and yielded per plots were collected. Analysis of variance revealed the presence of significant (P ≤ 0.05) difference in days to maturity, plant height, pods/plant, seed/pod, and seed yield. The maximum and minimum amount of pods/ plant of (17.03) and (10.06) were recorded for the varieties Awash-mitin and SER-125, respectively. The highest grain yield of 16.10qt/ha was recorded for the variety Awash-2 and the least grain yield of (13.92qt/ha) was noted for local variety. Generally, Awash-2 followed Awash-mitin, KAT-B9, and Awash-1 which gave high yield than the standard check interims of number of pods per plant and grain yield. Therefore, Awash-2, KATB1, SAB736 and Awash-1 were recommended for further production under the study areas and other similar agro-ecology.

Keywords:Common bean; Seed yield; Varieties