Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
JP Aditya, Anuradha Bhartiya, PK Agrawal, Rajashekara H, VS Meena, L Kant, JK Arya and Devendra Lal

Abstract:
VL Dhan 88 is an early duration rice variety suitable for cultivation under lower hills of Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and medium hills of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh. This was released by the Central Sub-Committee on Crop Standards Notification and Release of Variety for Agricultural Crops and notified by the Central Seed Committee vide notification number S.O.500(E) dated the 29^th January, 2021. This variety was developed by ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS) Almora, Uttarakhand under irrigated early duration segment after 13 years. This was found promising, exhibited stability and shown significant superiority over the checks. This is derived from the cross Vivek Dhan 82/VL 31629. This has provided grain yield of 4,963 kg/ha in lower hills and 4,332 kg/ha under medium elevation and found significantly superior to VL Dhan 86 (national check), Shalimar Rice 3 (regional check) and local check. VL Dhan 88 has been consistent performer in lower elevated hills of Himachal Pradesh & Meghalaya and medium elevated hills of Uttarakhand & Himachal Pradesh during the four years of testing and found promising for these regions. It has shown moderate resistance against leaf blast, neck blast, sheath blight and bacterial leaf blight. This variety has recorded 77.5% hulling, 68.4% milling, 54.2% head rice recovery, 22.47% amylose content and intermediate ASV (4.0). VL Dhan 88 has long bold grain, kernel length (6.10mm), kernel breadth (2.21mm), L/B ratio (2.76).