Improvement of knowledge and skills level of wheat-cultivating farmers using on-farm researches

Abstract On-farm collaboration allows farmers and researchers to share observations, and lets the researcher draw on the farmer's experience with a farm and its problems. This can be a good beginning for choosing topics suitable for demonstrations or research ( Anderson and Lockeretz, 1991 ). The field study was conducted to evaluate yield comparison of seven bread and durum genotypes in two different locations (Helal-Ahmar and Astan-e-Ghods) of Khorasan Razavi, Iran. Analysis of combined data showed non-significant variation among two different locations. It means that ecological conditions of Helal-Ahmar and Astan-e-Ghods locations are offer for production of durum wheat. The bread wheat cultivar of G7 and durum wheat line G4 were both produced the highest grain yield in each farmers’ experimental fields. From the results, it can be concluded that the new selected promising wheat genotypes are able to increase the farmers’ level of economic and productivity.