Notification of Soybean Variety VL Soya 63

VL Soya 63 (National Identity No. 1C 560946) variety developed by Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (ICAR), Almora from a three-way cross through hybridization of VLS 2 x (Bragg x VHC 3022). It was released and notified by Central sub-committee on crop standards, Notification and Release of variety Vide Notification No. SO 2458 (E) dated 16.10.2008, for the rainfed timely sown conditions of hills of North-Western Himalayas which includes Uttarakhand hills and Himachal Pradesh. Prior to submission of VLS 63 as an entry to the All India Co-ordinated system, VLS 63 was selected as an entry in station trial for yield and other ancillary attributes from a two years evaluation at by Experimental farm, Hawalbagh. Subsequently, it was evaluated in co-ordinated programme (IVT/AVT) as VLS 63 for three years in All India Co-ordinated Research Project, NRC for soybean. In three years, VLS 63 was evaluated at Hawalbagh, Kangra, Palampur and Chiniyalisaur located in Indian Himalayas. It ranked first in 8 out of 9 locations for yield indicating a wider adaptability and consistant performance of this variety. On an average it yielded 2758.2 q/ha and the maximum yield was obtained at Hawalbagh (38.27 q/ha) on 2005. VLS 63 (25.58 q/ha) has shown significant yield superiority of 18.2% over best check VLS 47. VLS 59 has 41.04% protein and 17.91% oil content and showed moderate multiple resistances against pod blight (anthracnose) (9.1) and target leaf spot (11.1) and moderate resistance to frog eye leaf spot (20.7) over years & locations in north-western hills. VL Soya 63’ has determinate growth habit (67.2 cm) variety and requires 117.1 days (108 to 129 days) to mature. The mean 100-seed weight of VL Soya 63’ is 15.12g. ‘VL Soya 63’ may ensure nutritional security of the hilly people to the otherwise under-nourished hill population.