KewalanandPrajapati, Brajkishor2018-10-172018-10-172014-06http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810081707The experiment was conducted at Forage Agronomy block of Instructional Dairy Farm (IDF), Nagla of the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India during rabi season of 2012-13. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design consisting seven (7) treatments with five (5) replications. Growth, yield and quality of native and exotic cultivated forage crop’s varieties was determined along with their cuttings potential. UPO-212 and exotic Genie oat (Netherland) varieties of oat, local rye and exotic Makkhan grass (Advanta) varieties of rye grass, Mascavi variety of berseem, exotic Baralfa IN (Netherland) variety of lucerne and exotic Barduro (Netherland) variety of red clover were tested for their yield attributes, yield and quality. The dry matter per cent, green forage yield, dry matter yield, crude protein yield, and digestible dry matter yield was highest from lucerne variety Baralfa IN than remaining leguminous rabi season forage crops. Among oat varieties, dry matter per cent, green forage yield, dry matter yield, crude protein yield and digestible dry matter yield was highest in the UPO-212 than genie oat while among rye grasses, yields was higher in the rye grass variety makkhan grass than local rye. Crude protein per cent, neutral detergent fibre content, acid detergent fibre content and hemicellulose per cent of berseem was higher than lucerne variety Baralfa IN and red clover variety Barduro, while among oat and rye grass varieties, genie oat and makkhan grass had higher respective quality characters. Dry matter digestibility was higher in red clover variety Barduro than remaining leguminous rabi season forage crops. Among oat and rye grass varieties, dry matter digestibility was more in genie oat and makkhan grass respectively. On the basis of the present investigation it is concluded that exotic lucerne variety Baralfa IN, Oat variety UPO-212 and Rye grasses variety Makkhan grass, best option for rabi season forage crops.ennullThesis