Assessment of French bean var. Arka Komal and Arka Sukomal in Bongaigaon district of Assam, India

French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is mainly grown in the temperate region of India and is also known as “Sunday Special Vegetables”. French bean is used as dry seeds as well as immature tender pods. Most of the consumers prefer stringless odourless soft type of French beans and at the same time the grower’s preference is high yield with long yielding periods. Therefore, the present investigation was carried out at farmer’s field of Bongaigaon District of Assam in order to find out the suitable variety in context to yield attributing characters along with organoleptic test. Three varieties namely Arka Sukomal, Arka Komal and check variety Falguni were evaluated for different yield attributing characters. Based on the studied result, Arka Sukomal outperformed in most of the characters. The longest crop duration was recorded in Arka Sukomal whereas lowest was recorded in Arka Komal. Similarly highest plant height (187.35 cm), maximum pod length (19.95 cm) and highest pod weight (13.53 g) was recorded in Arka Sukomal. The study also revealed that among the three varieties, Arka Sukomal achieved the highest yield (22.5 t/ha) along with highest B:C ratio (3.90), which makes this variety superior than the other studied varieties.