PUMMY KUMARI*, S. K. PAHUJA, D. S. PHOGAT, SATPAL, N. KHAROR, B. L. SHARMA AND MANJEET KUMAR
Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail : pummy.hau@gmail.com)
(Received : 11 March 2023; Accepted : 30 March 2023)
SUMMARY
An improved single-cut forage sorghum variety, “CSV 53F” was developed by pedigree method of breeding by Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana
Agricultural University, Hisar. It was identified under AICRP on Sorghum and further released &
notified for cultivation in kharif season for all sorghum growing states of the country i.e., Haryana,
Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. CSV 53F (SPV 2705) produced 482.81 q/ha green fodder (average of three years in Coordinated trials) which showed 2.91% and 1.18% superiority over the national check I CSV21F (468.29 q/ha) and the national check II CSV35F (467.44 q/ha), respectively at national level. CSV 53F (SPV 2705) produced 152.67 q/ha dry fodder (average of three years in Coordinated trials) which showed 5.57 % and 9.28% superiority over the national check I CSV21F (144.76 q/ha) and the national check II CSV35F (139.53 q/ha), respectively at national level. This variety gives good seed yield i.e., 13.39 q/ha and highly responsive at F1 fertility level i.e. 50% RDF. As far as quality is concerned it has high total soluble solids (TSS%) i.e 9.24 % which is at par with national check I CSV21F (9.41%) and 18.1% increase over the national Check II CSV35F (7.82%). It possesses 66.31 µg/g HCN (on fresh wt. basis) which is far less than permissible limit of 200 µg/g and has crude protein 6.92% and IVDMD 44.22% which shows 2.98% and 1.88% increase over the national check I CSV21F (Crude protein 6.78% and IVDMD 43.41%), respectively. It is also tolerant to shootfly and stem borer and resistant against grey leaf spot and sooty
stripe. However, it is moderately resistant against anthracnose, leaf blight and zonate leaf spot foliar
diseases.
Key words: Forage, single-cut, green fodder, dry fodder, quality