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Commercial Varieties of Beetroot

Name of Variety / Hybrid Salient Features Recommended Areas
Detroit Dark Red (IARI, New Delhi) Tops small; leaves glossy dark green tinged with maroon veins. Roots perfectly round with deep red skin. Flesh deep blood red with light zoning, tender and fine grained. Slightly corrosive in taste when eaten raw. Maturity 80–100 days. Yield about 180 q/ha. All over India
Crimson Globe (IARI, New Delhi) Tops medium; leaves bright green with maroon shade. Roots globular to flat-globe with medium red skin. Flesh medium dark red with indistinct zones. Non-corrosive in taste. Yield about 180 q/ha. All over India
Ooty 1 (TNAU, Coimbatore) Roots blood red in colour with thin skin and good quality. Average yield about 31 t/ha. Tamil Nadu

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