Dapoli 3: A high yielding variety of finger millet

A high yielding mid-late duration culture DPLN 2 was developed at the Department of Agriculture Botany, College Agriculture, Dapoli and released as 3 during 2020 state level notified by ministry farmer welfare, welfare with notification number CG-DL-E-04012022-232406 extraordinary part-II-section 3-subsection (ii) dated 24th Dec. 2021. has through pure line selection from local germplasm. Out twenty one culture, found promising in respect yield over check 1, PR 202 station, multilocation adaptive research trials. It yields an average 2405 kg/ha grain under rainfed conditions. Besides semi compact earhead, uniform maturity, non-lodging, continuous spikelets, non-shattering moderate protein (7.52 %) calcium (264 ppm) content. The weight earhead is 8.9 g compared to 7.2 1. recorded a which 26.64 per cent increase 1 (1899 kg/ha) station trails. 2014  13.78 (1770 kg/ ha) trials conducted Kharif 2016 2017 13 locations whereas mean (was 1518 12.19 1(1353 trial Konkan Goa region 2019. given 3228 5.76 national GPU 45 (3052 12.98 VL 376 (2857 all India co-ordinated trails tested kharif,  Keywords: Finger millet, yield, Semi compact, new variety