New High Yielding Mung Bean Variety Phule Chetak for Maharashtra

Background: Mung bean is one of the important pulse crop requiring low inputs. The productivity kharif mung very low. present improved varieties have lower yield potential and disease susceptibility. There a need to develop high yielding combined with early mid synchronous maturity, better quality resistance/tolerance major pests diseases. Methods: green gram var. Phule Chetak was developed by pedigree selection method from cross between SML-668 X Naval at Oilseeds Research Station, MPKV, Jalgaon. It tested over several locations environments for its stability performance. Result: results indicated significant improvement in level under field conditions. new variety reported an average 1003 kg/ha which 26.96%, 36.46%, 29.42%, 21.72%, 17.58% 13.21 per cent higher than check Vaibhav, BPMR-145, AKM-8802, BM-2002-1, BM-2003-2 Utkarsha respectively. bold seeded having moderately resistant diseases like powdery mildew, mungbean yellow mosaic virus Considering consistent performance, genotype PM-707-5 has been released cultivation season Maharashtra name Joint Agresco during 29-30 October, 2020 held Dr PDKV, Akola.