Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Sudeshna Baruah, Subhashree Dihingia, Juli Sharma, Sukanya Gogoi, Angana Sarmah, Amrita Khound, Pooja Basumatary, Shourov Dutta, Monoranjan Neog and PK Pathak

Abstract:
The present study was carried out to evaluate the performance of French bean varieties namely Arka, Komal and Arka Sukomal as compared to the check variety Serengeti in five different agro climatic zones of Assam during year 2021-22. During the study the varieties were evaluated for different growth and yield characters along with the consumer preference based on organoleptic value and economics of cultivation. Among the three varieties, Arka Sukomal was found to be significantly superior considering majority of the studied characters like longest crop duration (98.67 days), highest plant height (197.21 cm), maximum numbers of leaves (69.67) and pods per plant (62.86), highest pod weight (13.18 g) and highest pod length (19.95 cm). The results also revealed that the variety Arka Sukomal is the most preferred variety with a significantly high organoleptic score of 8.13 in 10 scale and at the same time Arka Sukomal is significantly the highest yielder (20.75 t/ha) and records the highest B:C ratio of 3.51. With these results, this can be recommended that as per the performance of the pole type French bean variety Arka Sukomal, which exhibited highest yield as well as highest organoleptic score, is over all the best performer and hence may be recommended for commercial cultivation in the 5 different agro climatic zones of Assam.