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Onion Variety: Bhima Shweta

 Salient features

• Bulbs are attractive white, round, very less number of bolters and doubles (<3%) in rabi season with thin neck and 11.5% TSS.
• It matures at 110–115 days after transplanting during rabi.
• Keeping quality of bulbs of this variety during rabi season is up to 3 months.
• This variety has been developed after random pollination among the selected elite lines followed by mass selection.

Performance
• Mean marketable yield during rabi season is 35.9 tonne/ha with a national average yield of 28.2 tonne/ha.
• This variety is tolerant to thrips.

Impact and benefits
• The variety has been recommended for cultivation in Maharashtra and has also been found suitable for Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Gujarat during rabi.



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