In the farming systems approach to technology development, trials are carried out on a limited number of farmers’ fields. Results of these trials are extrapolated to the entire target area and used either to identify directions for further research or to develop recommendations for farmers. Extra...
Smith, J.
,
Walker, P.
,
Oyewole, B.
,
[Representativeness of farmers and sites in onfarm trials]
,
Representativeness of farmers and sites in onfarm trials
Recent successes in the conventional cross-breeding of plantains and cooking bananas by genetic improvement programmes will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of new clones that require testing before release to farmers. In most cases testing focused on disease resistance and yield but ...
Korie, S.
,
Walker, P.
,
Ortiz, R.
,
Vuylsteke, D.R.
,
Ferris, R.S.B.
,
[Statistical tools to evaluate sensory data fro testing fruit quality of Musa]
,
Statistical tools to evaluate sensory data fro testing fruit quality of Musa
I do not propose to say much about the type of verification trial where a single plot using a package of improvements is established on the fields of several farmers. Although they often provide useful information over an area, I consider them to be little more than demonstration plots. Where we ...