Abstract

In India, Indian Council of Agricultural Research has started a co-ordinated maize breeding scheme with the collaboration of Rocke- feller Foundation in the year 1957. Since then a number of hybrid-maize varieties have been evolved and now released to farmers for cultivation. Investigations carried out in different parts of the country clearly indicate the superiority of hybrids over the local variety ranging from 31 to 173% (Dhawan et al, 1961; Nezamuddin et al, 1963 and Singh et al, 1966). In order to evaluate the performance of four maize hybrids, viz., Ganga hybrid Makka 101, Ganga hybrid Makka-3, Ganga hybrid Makka-2 and Deccan hybrid Makka, an yield trial was conducted at the College of Agri- culture, Banaras Hindu University during summer and rainy seasons for three years consecutively from 1965 to 1968.

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