Common vetch HANKA (ORG) LT-EKO-001

Produced in Lithuania

A medium early high yielding vetch with high nutrition value and perfect resistance to diseases

• The plants are large, abundantly leafy
• High seed yield (1.73 t/ha) (1.5-2.5 t/ha)
• Beginning of flowering – 60 days after sowing
• Beginning of flowering – 60 days after sowing
• Technical maturity – 120 days after sowing
• Intensive growth at the beginning of vegetation
• Plant height – 50-160 cm
• Stem – soft and tall
• Resistant to diseases
• Plants are moderately resistant to lodging and seed scattering in the field
• Green mass grows in 70 days
• Flowers – red-purple
• Seeds – dark greyish-brown
• 1000 grain weight – 52 g
• Grains are high in protein and have a high nutritional value
• Protein content – 32 % DM
• Very low tannin content – 0.05 % DM
• Commonly grown in mixtures with oats
• In mixtures with oats the plants grow like oats or even taller
• Could be grown in mixtures with oats, summer barley, summer rye (1:1)
• Characterized by a relatively constant seed yield, responds well to soil fertiltlity, although it adapts well to less fertile soils
• Undemanding to soils, grows well in moist soils
• Likes loose, deeply ploughed and tilled soil
• Characterized by intensive spring growth, which allows good competition and shading of weeds
• The plants produce a large amount of green mass, so they can be grown as green manure

• Seed yield – 3.48 t/ha
• Vegetation from sowing to technical maturity – 122 days
• Days from sowing to flowering – 77 days
• Duration of flowering – 22 days
• Plant height – 120 cm
• Resistance to lodging at the end of flowering – 5.5 points (out of 9)
• Resistance to lodging before harvesting – 2.8 points (out of 9)
• Evenness of maturity – 7.8 points (out of 9)
• Share of green plants – 3.9%
• Resistance to pod cracking – 8.1 points (out of 9)
• 1000 grain weight – 59 g
• Resistance to anthracnose – 7.9 points (out of 9)
• Resistance to powdery mildew – 8.3 points (out of 9)
• Resistance to rust – 7.5 points (out of 9)
• Protein content in DM – 31.2 %
• Protein yield – 931 kg/ha
• Fiber content – ​​4.7 %
• Content of glycosides – 4.1 mg %

*2014-2016 research data in Poland

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam