Participatory Evaluation of Open Pollinated Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties for Green Cob Production Under Irrigation in the North Shewa Lowlands, Ethiopia

Table 6

A pair-wise ranking matrix of attributes for the selection of open pollinated (OPV) maize varieties in 2017.

Attributes	NC	BT	UM	HTC	CL	ER	SST	Scores	Rank
NC		BT	UM	NC	CL	ER	SS	1	6
BT			BT	BT	BT	BT	BT	6	1
UM				UM	UM	UM	UM	5	2
HTC					CL	ER	SST	0	7
CL						CL	CL	4	3
ER							SS	2	5
SST								3	4

Best ranked farmers’ selection attributes, bear tip, uniformity and cob length. Where NC = number of cobs, BT = beer tip, UM = uniformity, HTC = husk tip coverage, CL = cob length, ER = earliness, SST = stalk strength.