<div style="text-align: justify;">The present investigation was conducted during rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18 in the organic experimental farm of the institute by employing French bean cv. Swarna Priya. The experiment was designed after RCBD considering five organic treatments, viz.T1: Amritjal (1%); T2: Sanjivani (10%); T3: Shasyagavya (10%); T4: FYM @ 6 t ha-1 + Vermicompost @ 3t ha-1; and T5: Absolute Control. Different growth, yield and quality attributes of the crop were highly influenced by different organic treatments. In this context, T3: Shasyagavya (10%) emerged as the best treatment with the highest green pod yield of 21.15 t ha-1. However, quality contributing characters performed indifferently under the exposures of organically designed treatment conditions. Though, T3 (Shasyagavya 10%) once again materialized as the best treatment with higher amount of dry matter (9.54%), TSS (4.600Brix), ascorbic acid (65.27 mg 100g-1) and protein content (10.63 %) in edible green pods, respectively.&nbsp;</div>

Influence of different low-cost organic inputs on growth, yield and quality of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cv. Swarna Priya

<div>Background: French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important protein-rich winter vegetable of our country but extensively grown in south Chhotanagpur plateau of Jharkhand during both kharif and rabi seasons. However, indiscriminate uses of agrochemicals lead to production of poor quality pods of the crop due to residual toxicity. Hence, the current study was aimed to evaluate of the crop varieties based on their yield and quality traits expression under organic growing condition. 
 
Methods: The present investigation was carried out by adopting five bush type varieties of French bean (V1: Arka Komal, V2: Swarna Priya, V3: HAFB-2, V4: HAFB-4 and V5: Falcon). They were grown independently under two growing conditions viz. organic farming (Oi) where FYM, vermicompost and Shasyagavya were used as organic inputs and absolute control (O0) where no organic input was applied. These varieties were grown with their four replications in each of the experimental situate following RCBD experimental design. Different yield and its attributes and proximate quality traits were studied under both growing conditions for their evaluation. 
 
Result: Findings revealed that most of the studied traits were influenced by organic growing condition with significant differences among varieties to pod length, pods per plant, pod weight, green pod yield, ascorbic acid, TSS and protein content. Consequently, the maximum green pod yield (17.55 t ha-1) was estimated in HAFB-4 under organic growing condition as against 7.57 t ha-1 under the absolute control condition. Different proximate quality traits were also expressed independently under different varietal situates but responded better under organic growing condition than its respective absolute control counterpart.</div>

Influence of different low-cost organic inputs on growth, yield and quality of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cv. Swarna Priya

Evaluation of Bush Type French Bean Varieties through Organic Farming in South Chhotanagpur Plateau of Eastern India