FORAGE MAIZE GENOTYPES PERFORMANCE FOR FODDER YIELD AND ITS ATTRIBUTES WITH QUALITY PARAMETERS AT HISAR AND ALL-INDIA LEVEL
Y. JINDAL*, D. S. PHOGAT, U. N. JOSHI AND A. K. MALL
AICRP on Forage Crops, Forage Section
Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding
CCS Haryana Agricultural University
Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail : yjindalhau@gmail.com)
(Received : 16 November 2015; Accepted : 08 March 2016)
SUMMARY
Six entries of forage maize (JHM-13-1, BAIF Maize-3, AFM-3, AFM-2, PFM-7 and AFM-1) were evaluated along with two national checks viz., African Tall and J-1006 for assessing their fodder yield potential and quality parameters in trials during kharif 2013. The same set of entries was also tested at 21 different locations distributed in the five zones for fodder trial. Highest green fodder yield (695.7 q/ha) was recorded at Hyderabad followed by Raipur (616.6 q/ha) and Coimbatore (523.1 q/ha), whereas highest dry matter yield (129.5 q/ha) was recorded at Raipur followed by Bhubaneswar (117.2 q/ha) and Ranchi (108.9 q/ha). Highest per day production of green fodder was recorded at Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad [GFY (q/ha/day)– 10.63 and 10.03, respectively] followed by Ranchi (9.55 q/ha/day). Highest crude protein was obtained at Raipur (12.7 q/ha) followed by Coimbatore (9.3 q/ha) and Bhubaneswar (9.2 q/ha). Data revealed that southern zone represented by Hyderabad and Coimbatore gave higher green fodder yield, plant height and production efficiency thereby indicating that climatic conditions and soil types were very suitable for production of fodder maize.
Key words:Fodder yield, quality, maize