COMMON BEAN (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) CULTIVAR EVALUATION BY FAMILY FARMERS

Authors

Irajá Ferreira Antunes, Embrapa Clima Temperado
Clause Fátima Brum Piana, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
João Gilberto Corrêa da Silva, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Alexandre Terracciano Villela, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Gilberto Antonio Peripolli Bevilaqua, Embrapa Clima Temperado

Date of this Version

3-2017

Citation

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BEAN IMPROVEMENT COOPERATIVE, No. 60, March 2017. Published by USDA.

Comments

U.S. government work.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION In Rio Grande do Sul (RS) State, in Southern Brazil, family farming is responsible for about 70% of common bean production (Villela et al., 2016). Common bean production in the State can be referred to according to the twelve Emater, the official extension institution, administrative regions. In order to get common bean farmers acquainted with new released cultivars, in the early 90s, the Embrapa Temperate Climate with the contribution of Emater put in place the Common Bean Demonstration Units System – SUDF (Villela et al., 2016). Simultaneously, the SUDF had as additional goal to minimize the effects of genotype x environment interaction, since the evaluation was carried out at the farmers’ fields, from which the most suitable cultivars could be selected.

This paper, which comprehends the results from experiments conducted at Emater’s Pelotas region and sums up to the results obtained from the experiments developed at the Ematers’ Soledade region in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, contributes to the understanding of the behavior of the tested cultivars under different environmental conditions under farmers’ management, according to their adaptation to these conditions.