Evaluating performance of recently released tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) varieties at highland areas of West Hararghe, Ethiopia

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most important and widely grown vegetable crops both during rainy dry seasons for its fruit by smallholder farmers, commercial state private farms in Ethiopia. Field study was conducted 2018 to 2020 cropping season at highland areas West Hararghe aimed evaluating performance recently released tomato varieties. Treatments used were composed three varieties (Gelilema, Chali & ARP-Tomato-d2) arranged a randomized complete block design (RCBD). Traits such as plant height, number primary branches, days 50% flowering, maturity, clusters per plant, fruits cluster, weight, unmarketable yield, marketable yield total analyzed using R software (R 3.4.1). According analysis variance, found cause significant (p ≤ 0.001) difference height (cm), branches flowering (days), maturity weight (gmfruit-1), (tha-1) while non-significantly affected Hence, highest (60cm), (53 days), (102days), (9 numberplant-1), cluster (14 plant-1), (4.33 cluste-1), (30.33tha-1) (33.33tha-1) recorded with variety Gelilema. Among evaluated, Gelilema showed best performances components tomato. Therefore, superior these parameters, recommended maximize productivity production