Onion Variety: Bhima Shakti

 Salient features

• Bulbs are round and attractive red at harvest with low to medium thick neck.
• Bulb TSS is 11.8% and it has very good storage life.
• Uniform neck fall occurs during rabi and more than 70% neck fall during late kharif in this variety.
• Bulbs mature in 130 days after transplanting during late kharif and rabi seasons.
• Low bolting (2.15% and 0.36%) and doubling (5.69% and 1.38%) in late kharif and rabi seasons, respectively, is a special feature of this variety.

Performance
• This variety has been recommended for cultivation in Maharashtra during late kharif and rabi.
• The national average yield of this variety during rabi cultivation is 29.2 tonne/ha. But exceptionally higher marketable yield (45.9 tonnes/ha during late kharif and 42.7 tonne/ha during rabi) with improved crop management practices has been recorded in Maharashtra.
• This variety is tolerant to thrips.