International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : (585) Last page : (594)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2510
Evaluation of French Bean Germplasm Based on Farmer Specified Attributes through Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) In Kashmir Valley
Altaf Ahmad Sheikh1, Nayeema Jabeen1, Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh*, Nida Yousuf3, Sajad Un Nabi2, Tariq Ahmad Bhat1 and Parveez Ahmad Sofi3
1Division of Vegetable Science, 2 ICAR-CITH Old Air field Rangreth Srinagar (J&K), India,
3Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, *Division of Entomology, SKUAST-K Srinagar J&K 190025
*Corresponding Author E-mail: saijaz25@gmail.com
Received: 25.01.2017 | Revised: 8.02.2017 | Accepted: 10.02.2017
ABSTRACT
French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important vegetable-cum-pulse crop of the world covering about half of the global pulse acreage. The yields are disappointingly low in India as compared to about very high yield levels in some other countries like china. French bean being an important vegetable crop of valley was used as a target crop for identification of farmer preferred genotypes. Participatory rural appraisal was done in the sixteen locations using a structured questionnaire based on socio-economic attributes, farming systems, production constraints and varietal preferences. The results indicated that there was significant difference among various traits. A grandmother trial comprising of 50 genotypes was laid at main campus Shalimar while as mother trial comprising 30 genotypes was laid at four locations namely Rangar and Daetmuribagh (Budgam), Yarmuqam and Arhama (Ganderbal). Participatory varietal selection was done at farmer’s field and through farm walk when the pods were at edible stage. During farm walk voting for each genotype was done and preferential score was calculated for each genotype. Genotypes which were selected by farmers almost at every location were; WB-195, WB-1186, WB-940, WB-648, WB-160, WB-1538 etc.
Key words: French bean, PRA, PVS, grandmother trial
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Cite this article: Sheikh, A.A., Jabeen, N., Sheikh, A.A., Yousuf, N., Nabi, S.U., Bhat, T.A. and Sofi, P.A., Evaluation of French Bean Germplasm Based on Farmer Specified Attributes through Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) In Kashmir Valley, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(2): 585-594 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2510
