Oats are grown for use as grain as well as forage and fodder, straw for bedding, hay, silage and chaff. The study was conducted with the objective to find out the suitable variety of oat for getting maximum fodder seed yield and fodder. A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of ‘2016 to ‘2017 at Chiplimaf arm; Sambalpur (Odisha).The experiment consisted of three varieties of oat (Kent, JHO-822 and RO-19). The results showed that the Kentvariety produced highest number of tillers/m2, plant height. Green and dry (without cutting) fodder production is highest in RO-19 (51.20 cm, 265.72q/ha and 144q/ha), panicle weight and 1000 grain weight which resulted into higher seed yield (3.64 t/ha). Highest seed yield was recorded in JHO-822 (22q/ha and 10.5q/ha) than other varieties (in both cases, without green fodder cutting and with green fodder cutting) and also highest dry fodder (75q/ha) noted after one cutting of green fodder.
