Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) is the main winter food legume of Nepal. Observation nursery, coordinated varietal trials and farmers' field trials were conducted at Khumaltar, Lalitpur during 2007/08 and 2009/ 10 to select high yielding and disease resistant lentil varieties for mid hills. All the tested genotypes produced very poor yield due to extreme drought. In the year 2007/08 genotypes ILL 7537 R and ILL 7979 produced grain yield of 487 and 435 kg/ha respectively. Hundred grains weight ranged from 2.0 g in Shital to 3.4 g in ILL 8186. While during 2009/ 10, non significant differences among the genotypes were recorded for days to maturity, final stand, grain yield and plant height. Grain yield ranged from 73 kg/ha in ILL 10301 to 341 kg/ha each in 7979, ILL 10071 and Simal.

Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) is the main winter food legume of Nepal. Observation nursery, coordinated varietal trials and farmers' field trials were conducted at Khumaltar, Lalitpur during 2007/08 and 2009/ 10 to select high yielding and disease resistant lentil varieties for mid hills. All the tested genotypes produced very poor yield due to extreme drought. In the year 2007/08 genotypes ILL 7537 R and ILL 7979 produced grain yield of 487 and 435 kg/ha respectively. Hundred grains weight ranged from 2.0 g in Shital to 3.4 g in ILL 8186. While during 2009/ 10, non significant differences among the genotypes were recorded for days to maturity, final stand, grain yield and plant height. Grain yield ranged from 73 kg/ha in ILL 10301 to 341 kg/ha each in 7979, ILL 10071 and Simal.