Sewali Saikia, Sudeshna Baruah, Ashok Kamal Gogoi, Dwiban Pujari, Gauranga Das, Parag Saikia6, Bedanta Kr. Das, Dipen Ch. Nath and Ejaful Ahmed
Abstract
French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is mainly grown in the temperate region of India and is also known as âSunday Special Vegetablesâ. French bean is used as dry seeds as well as immature tender pods. Most of the consumers prefer stringless odourless soft type of French beans and at the same time the growerâs preference is high yield with long yielding periods. Therefore, the present investigation was carried out at farmerâs field of Bongaigaon District of Assam in order to find out the suitable variety in context to yield attributing characters along with organoleptic test. Three varieties namely Arka Sukomal, Arka Komal and check variety Falguni were evaluated for different yield attributing characters. Based on the studied result, Arka Sukomal outperformed in most of the characters. The longest crop duration was recorded in Arka Sukomal whereas lowest was recorded in Arka Komal. Similarly highest plant height (187.35 cm), maximum pod length (19.95 cm) and highest pod weight (13.53 g) was recorded in Arka Sukomal. The study also revealed that among the three varieties, Arka Sukomal achieved the highest yield (22.5 t/ha) along with highest B:C ratio (3.90), which makes this variety superior than the other studied varieties.