Ahinora - a new variety of winter-feed barley

Darina Dimova, Dragomir Valchev

Abstract: Achinora is a new variety of winter feed barley, created by the method of combinational selection at the Institute of Agriculture - Karnobat. The biological and economic qualities of the variety have been tested in the Institute’s Variety Tests for several years, and in the Executive Agency of Variety Testing, Field Inspection and Seed Control trials during the years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 years. The aim of the study is to make a economic characteristic of the new winter feed barley variety Ahinora. They are presented the results of a two-year test in the EAVTFISC system, according to which the new variety exceeds the average standard (Veslets and Aheloy 2) at all points of the country by 15.6%. The length of the period to heading is 3-4 days later than the standards. The Achinora variety has high cold and winter resistance, high resistance to logging and high resistance to spike neck breaking. By decision of the Expert Commission on Cereals to EAVTFISC, and Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry №. RD 12- 6 / 26.03.2018 and under Article 14, Paragraph 2 of The Law on Seed and Propagating Material the recognition and listing in List A of the Official List of the Republic of Bulgaria of a variety of winter feed barley Ahinora. It is suitable for use in all regions of the country.

Keywords: new variety; productivity; winter feed barley

Date published: 2019-08-21