Adaptability evaluation of improved Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) varieties for yield and other quantitative traits in Arba Minch, Southern Ethiopia

Tomato is one of the important vegetables grown all over world for its nutritious and economic value. Varietal improvement high yielding, pest resistance tolerance, drought tolerance processing quality traits are vital thereby to enhance production productivity crop. Due lack improved varieties in study area, local tomato challenged very limited. Hence, identification that adaptable, yielding disease resistant crucial before dissemination boost area. Therefore, this experiment was conducted at Arba Minch evaluate ten yield components under irrigation condition using randomized complete block design replicated three times. ANOVA result indicated there a significant variation among tested studied parameters. The mean total number fruits plant-1 varied from 4991.1 11,215 kg ha-1 13.33 36.53 plant-1, respectively. ‘Melkashola’ scored highest marketable (9,438 ha-1) (11,216 being followed by ‘Bishola’ (8,756 ‘Melkasalsa’ (8,367 ha-1). On other hand, ‘Miya’ with moderately might also be regarded as potential varieties. first recommended cultivation area similar agro-ecology. Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 12(1): 79-83, June 2022