Two years fingermillet trial conducted in Lumle and presented in Conference in Pokhara.

1. Conference on Recent Trends in
Science, Technology and Innovation
Yield, yield attributes and correlation among them in field research of
fingermillet (Eleusine coracana (L.)) genotypes in Gandaki Province, Lumle, Kaski
Ramesh Acharya1*, Bandhu Raj Baral2, Kalika P Upadhyay1, Pramish Rawat3, Binod Acharya4
1Directorate of Agriculture Research, Lumle, Kaski, Nepal
2Hill Crops Research Program, Dolakha, Nepal
3Amristsar Group of Colleges, India
4Sustainable Environment and Infrastructures, Kathmandu, Nepal
*Email: acharya.afu@gamil.com
Presenter: Ramesh Acharya

2. INTRODUCTION
 Finger millet is cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical areas of world. It is an
annual cereal crop.
 Finger millet, a crop of many poor and subsistent people in the hills of Nepal
comes fourth in terms of area and production in Nepal only after rice, maize and
wheat.(Sharad Bajracharya, Ram C. Prasad and Shiva K. Budhathoki, 2009).
 The storability of finger millet for 10 or more years with minimum insect damage
and deterioration in its quality makes it a good choice as reserve crop.
 Only five varieties of finger millet namely Okhale -1, dale-1, Kavre Kodo-1,
Sailung kodo-1 and Kavre kodo-2 are released and Rato kodo is registered till
date by Government of Nepal (SQCC, 2021 )
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3. INTRODUCTION Contd…
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International Year of Millets 2023 will be an opportunity to raise awareness of, and direct policy attention to
the nutritional and health benefits of millets and their suitability for cultivation under adverse and changing
climatic conditions. (FAO, 2023)
Nepal imported millet of 180.00 million NRs in 2019 (TPEC, 2019).
It is also considered as “Future Smart Food” considering its great value for nutrition, local adaptation, climate
resilience, and risk diversification. (Ghimire, 2018)
Social taboo of consuming finger millets by elite groups of society in rural setting still prevails and very less
farmer preferred variety improvement is conducted and there are less high yielding varietal options. (Gairhe,
2021)
Luitel et al. 2018

4. OBJECTIVES
General objective
To conduct experiment for selecting superior finger millet genotypes
Specific objectives
To assess the effect of finger millet genotypes on yield, yield attributes and crop
phenology
To assess the association between the yield and attributes.
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5. MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Date of seeding : May 15, 2019 and May 17, 2020
Location of Experiment: Directorate of Agricultural Research, Lumle, Kaski
 Design : Randomized Complete Block Design
 Total No. of genotypes : 16
 Spacing: 20 cm* 5 cm
 Plot size = 4.5 m2
 Total number of plots = 48
 Plant height, number of fingers per head counted from 10 plants per plot.
 Plant population, head per meter square are counted in 1 meter square area.
Manures and fertilizers: 30:30: 20 NPK kg /ha. FYM @ 20t/ha,
Liming was done in the 2nd year before seeding.

6.  Weeding was done once in 35 and 55 days manually.
 Data recording, entry and analysis : Microsoft Excel
ADEL-R
R Studio
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Material and methods contd….
Table 1. Physico-chemical properties of the soil in the field before experiment in DoAR,
Lumle in 2019 and 2020
Soil properties 2019 2020 unit
PH
4.8 5.9
Soil texture Sandy loam Sandy loam
Soil Nitrogen content 0.26 ‒ 0.45 0.36-0.53 Percentage
Soil available Phosphorus
content
300 285 Kg/ha
Soil Available Potassium
content
186 204 Kg/ha
Organic matter content 6.8 6.3 Percentage

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Agrometeorological parameters of the experimental
site during the 2020 cropping season
Max Temp (0C) Min Temp (0C) Avg Temp (0C) Average Soil Temp (0C) Rainfall (mm)
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Agrometeorological parameters of the experimental site during
the 2019 cropping season
Max Temp (0C) Min Temp (0C) Avg Temp (0C) Average Soil Temp (0C) Rainfall (mm)

9. DATA RECORDING
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Crop phenology Yield and yield attributes
Days to panicle emergence
Days to physiological maturity
Plant height (cm)
Number of plants per meter square
Number of heads per meter square
Number of fingers per head
Grain yield (t/ha)
Biological yield (t/ha)

10. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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0.0
20.0
40.0
60.0
80.0
100.0
120.0
140.0
68.0 68.5 68.0
83.7
65.0
70.0
66.7
68.8
79.7
68.5
62.8
66.7
73.7
65.8 67.2 67.0
127.2 128.7 129.2
135.7
126.7
131.8
125.0 126.7
133.3
128.3
123.2
129.3
132.7
124.2
131.2 130.7
Crop phenology in Days
Days to panicle emergence Days to physiological maturity

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138.8
130.7
135.3
142.9
133.2
133.7
128.0
134.5
127.5
125.7
101.3
123.3
108.3
114.0
99.3
135.0
0.0 20.0 40.0 60.0 80.0 100.0 120.0 140.0 160.0
BN-3
GE-507
DR-2
KLE-236
KLE-1
ACC#5434
NE-94
KLE-298
KLE-192
ACC#4231
K.K.-2
Local check
ACC#6369
KLE-158
ACC#513
ACC#2844
Plant height (cm)

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Genotype
Number of plants
per m2
Number of heads
per m2
Number of fingers
per head
Five hundred
kernel weight (g)
BN-3 73.2 72.7 7.1 1.58
GE-507 74.8 79.3 6.0 1.63
DR-2 63.7 67.0 5.8 1.60
KLE-236 62.5 68.0 7.4 1.54
KLE-1 81.7 83.0 7.1 1.52
ACC#5434 77.8 78.5 7.4 1.63
NE-94 65.3 75.2 6.7 1.67
KLE-298 75.5 75.5 6.8 1.62
KLE-192 76.7 80.0 6.9 1.53
ACC#4231 62.8 74.3 7.0 1.68
K.K.-2 81.3 78.0 6.3 1.63
Local check 69.5 71.5 6.6 1.56
ACC#6369 68.2 74.0 6.4 1.54
KLE-158 73.3 77.7 5.5 1.60
ACC#513 78.8 84.3 7.2 1.64
ACC#2844 84.7 82.2 6.7 1.66
Mean 73.1 76.3 6.7 1.60
CV(%) 13.945 12.968 9.379 7.910
LSD 11.715 11.372 0.718 0.146
P value 0.003 0.080 0.000 0.112

14. Grain Yield (t/ha) Biological yield t/ha
Genotype 2019 2020Combined 2019 2020Combined
BN-3 2.872 2.976 2.924 8.800 10.467 9.633
GE-507 3.864 3.854 3.859 9.200 8.200 8.700
DR-2 2.892 2.963 2.927 7.700 7.700 7.700
KLE-236 3.502 4.110 3.806 11.933 11.600 11.767
KLE-1 3.201 4.021 3.611 9.167 11.167 10.167
ACC#5434 3.441 3.289 3.365 10.600 9.787 10.193
NE-94 2.453 3.304 2.879 7.333 9.033 8.183
KLE-298 4.066 3.817 3.942 10.200 11.200 10.700
KLE-192 3.423 3.143 3.283 11.367 10.443 10.905
ACC#4231 3.722 3.551 3.636 8.600 8.600 8.600
K.K.-2 2.584 3.181 2.882 6.600 6.167 6.383
Local check 2.722 2.967 2.844 6.933 8.033 7.483
ACC#6369 2.060 2.164 2.112 6.900 6.233 6.567
KLE-158 2.860 2.743 2.802 8.267 8.267 8.267
ACC#513 2.396 2.385 2.391 9.667 9.667 9.667
ACC#2844 3.799 3.188 3.493 10.267 10.267 10.267
Mean 3.116 3.229 3.172 8.971 9.177 9.074
CV(%) 23.234 21.345 21.241 21.641 22.193 22.008
LSD 1.207 1.149 0.774 3.237 3.396 2.294
P value 0.048 0.063 0.000 0.039 0.047 0.000
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15. Grain Yield (t/ha)
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0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000 2.500 3.000 3.500 4.000 4.500
BN-3
GE-507
DR-2
KLE-236
KLE-1
ACC#5434
NE-94
KLE-298
KLE-192
ACC#4231
K.K.-2
Local check
ACC#6369
KLE-158
ACC#513
ACC#2844
Grain Yield (t/ha)

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Fig 1: Correlation among the yield, yield affecting attributes

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Fig 1: Correlation among the yield, yield affecting attributes

18. CONCLUSION
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 KLE-298 recorded the highest average grain yield (3.94 t/ha) and
ACC#6369 recorded the lowest yield (2.11 t/ha).
 KK-2 was the earliest for panicle emergence whereas KLE-236 was
the late genotype for both panicle emergence and physiological
maturity.
 KLE-236 attained the average height of 142.86 cm, a significantly
higher among tested genotypes and ACC#6369 was the shortest.
 Positive significant association was found between number of plants
per meter square and number of heads per meter square, plant
height and biological yield,

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21. अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय कोदो बर्ा-२०२३
Pearl millet घोगे, बरजर्र
Little millet धरनकोदो, सुजीकोदो
Sorghum/Great millet जुनेलो
Barn yard millet सरमर
Proso millet ष्ट्िनो
Foxtail millet करगुनो
Fingermillet कोदो

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Aknowledgements
NARC
DoAR, Lumle
HCRP, Dolakha
Support staff
Bachelor Intern and OJT Interns
Thank You for your Patience!!!