Common vetch HANKA

Vicia sativa L.

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



Recommended sowing rate for mixtures for silage: 60 kg/ha of vetch and 180 kg/ha oats

Recommended sowing rate when growing for green fodder / manure: 120 kg/ha of vetch and 120 kg/ha oats

Sowing time – beginning of April or in August, depth – 2 сm