Landmark Varieties

CISH Ambika

• Fruits weight: 300-350 g
• TSS: 21°B
• Yield: 80-90 kg/plant
• Mangiferin content: 35.1 µg/g FW

CISH Arunika

• Fruit weight: 190-210 g
• TSS: 24.6 °B
• Yield: 60-70 kg/plant
• Mangiferin content: 49.5 µg/g FW

Arka Suprabhath

• Late variety, ready for harvest by July
• High yielding (35-40kg/plant)
•  Fruit weight 200-250g,  shelf life of 8-10 days
•  Deep orange firm pulp, recovery >70%, TSS >22°B, acidity 0.12%
•  Carotenoids (6 mg/100g FW) and flavonoids (3.44 mg/100g FW)

Arka Udaya

• Bunch bearing with medium sized fruits
• Semi-vigorous plant type
• TSS (oB) -24.0
• Total carotenoids (mg/100g)-13.55
• Keeping quality (days) -12-to 15
• Yield : 18 to 20 t/ha with  5m x 5m  spacing

Pusa Deepshikha

• Regular in bearing, attractive fruit shape, bright red peel and orange-yellow pulp
• Moderate TSS (18.67 °B), acidity (0.33%), high pulp content (70%) and ascorbic acid content (35.34 mg/100 g pulp)
• Recommended for export

Pusa Arunima

• Regular bearer, medium fruit size (250 g), attractive red peel colour, fiber-less pulp with mild flavour
• Moderate TSS (19.5 °B), rich in ascorbic acid (43.6 mg/100 g pulp)
• Very long shelf-life (10-12 days) at room temperature after ripening 

CISH Shweta

• Fruit weight: 250 g
• Ascorbic acid: 300 mg/100g
• TSS: 12.5-13.2°B
• Yield: 85-90 kg/plant

CISH Lalit

• Fruit weight: 185-200 g
• Ascorbic acid: 250 mg/100g
• Yield: 100 kg/plant
• Pink coloured pulp suitable for both table & processing purposes

Arka Kiran

• A pink pulp variety with average fruit weight 200-220 g and medium soft seeds (9 kg/cm2)
• TSS 11-12°B and lycopene content 7.14 mg/100 g
• Crop will come to harvest after two years of planting
• Economic yield starts after five years. Av. fruit yield of 20 t/acre at a spacing of 4 m x 3 m

Manjari Manjula

• A purple black coloured seeded variety
• Bold berries (24-26 mm diameter)
• Loose bunches for table purpose  

Manjari Madhura

• A heavy yielding black coloured variety 
• Suitable for both table and munnakka purposes

Manjari Medika

• Coloured variety suitable for juice making
• Juice recovery: 71%
• TSS: 19 - 22 °B
• Acidity: 0.5-0.6 %
• Anthocyanins: 4-6 mg/kg

Pusa Navrang

• It is coloured, teintuirier variety. Bunch loose & medium (285 g), medium berry (1.5 g) and round.

and sweet (TSS 19.0°B).

• Early maturing, tolerant to powdery mildew and anthracnose diseases
• Suitable for coloured juice and wine making. 

Pura Urvashi

• Early ripening (1st week of June) in basal bud bearing
• Good for raisin making and table use having high TSS content (20.0-22.0 °B)
• Bunch is medium (300 g), loose, medium berry (2.0 g), oval, greenish-yellow & seedless, yield/vine: 2.96 kg
• Fairly resistant to diseases

Arka Sahan 

• Creamy white colour flesh with scarce seeds (9/100g)
• Yield: 12 t/ha
• TSS: 30°B
• Ca: 225 mg/100g
• P: 42.29 mg/100g
• Av. fruit weight: 410 g

Thar Prakriti

• Yield: 115.75 kg/plant (12th year)
• Fruit weight 1.40 kg
• Pulp TSS 38.00°B
• Ascorbic acid: 22.30 mg/100 g pulp
• Rich in antioxidants with good flavor and aroma

Arka Supreme

•  ‘A’ type  variety
• Tree yields about 175-200 kg/plant,
• Fruits are oblong
• Average fruit weight of 367-428 G,
• 20% fat, and 0.45% fibre with 7.80B TSS.

Arka Coorg Ravi

• ‘B’ type  variety
• Fruit weight: 450-600 g
• Pulp recovery: > 80%
• High yielding (150-200 kg/plant).  Fat content : 12-14 %.

Cutter Valencia (Sweet Orange)

• Processing variety
• Juice content: 45-50%
• Fruit weight: 200-230 g
• Potential Yield: 21-30 t/ha.
• Maturity: December (can hold on tree up to February)

Flame Grapefruit

• Table Purpose
• Seedless: 1.6-1.9 per fruit
• Juice content: 50-52%
• Fruit weight: 350-400 g
• Potential yield: 25 t/ha
• Maturity: October-November 

Arka Rakshak

• First F1 hybrid with triple disease resistance to ToLCV, Bacterial wilt and Early blight
• Fruits square round, large (90-100 g), deep red coloured and firm
• Suitable for fresh market and processing
• Yield: 75-80 t/ha in 140 days

Arka Samrat

• High yielding F1 hybrids with Triple Disease Resistance (TLCV, Bacterial wilt & Early blight)
• Bred for fresh market and processing
• Suitable for summer, kharif and rabi seasons
• Yield: 40-50 t/acre in 140-150 days

Kashi Vijay

• Tolerant to Phomopsis blight and Fusarium wilt in field conditions.
• Recommended for U.P., Bihar, Jharkhand & Punjab

Arka Tejasvi

• Leaf curl virus resistant F1 hybrid
• Plants medium tall & spreading,
• Medium to highly pungent; green and turn deep red on maturity.
• Yield: 7.5-8.0 t dry chilli/ ha

Arka Arjun

• Plants are bushy, vigorous and photo-insensitive 
• Pods are green, stingless with smooth surface. 
• Suitable for both rabi and summer 
• Resistant to MYMV disease 
• Pod Yield: 17 t/ha in 70 days

Arka Prasanna

• Early variety (42-45 days for first picking) 
• Fruit- green, long, tender fruits 
• Excellent cooking quality. 
• Yields 26.0 t/ha in 120-135 days 

Kashi Prakram 

• Medium tall variety (120-135 cm)
• Suitable for both summer and rainy seasons
• Fruits are 12-14 cm long, shiny green in colour
• Yield: 145-155 q/ha, first fruit harvest at 45-47 DAS & fruiting period is 48-115 days
• Resistant to both YVMV and OELCV diseases

Kufri Chipsona-4

• Medium maturity: 90-110 days
• Suitable for chips purpose with high dry matter
• Yield: 30-35 t/ha
• Resistant to late blight

Kufri FryoM

• Early maturing, high yielding processing variety
• Resistance to late blight.
• White creamy oblong tubers with shallow eyes and white flesh.
• Have very good keeping quality and moderate tuber dry matter (20%) and low reducing sugar (<150 mg/100). 
• Yield: 30-35 t/ha

Bhima Super

• A red onion variety for kharif and late kharif seasons
• average yield of 20 - 22 t/ha in kharif and 40 - 45 t/ha in late kharif. 
• Bulbs 100-105 days after transplanting (DAT) in kharif and 110 -120 DAT in late kharif.

Bhima Shakti

• Red onion variety for late kharif and rabi season
• Bulbs mature in 130 days after transplanting
• Marketable yield during late kharif is 45.9 t/ha and during Rabi 42.7 t/ha
• Better storage life of 5-6 months

Sree Kaveri

• Resistant to cassava mosaic disease
• Potential yield: 80 t/ha
• 28% Starch and is good for industrial purpose 
• High drought tolerance index (value 1.54)

DFR Amrit

• Early maturing variety
• Long and robust spikes with 15-17 florets of about 10.58 cm in diameter.
• Spikes are straight and long with good rachis length (about 50-55 cm).
• Florets are pale yellow coloured with reddish spots at the base of inner petals.
• Good multiplier producing about 1-2 corms and 20-25 cormels

DFR Soham

• Early maturing variety
• Long and robust spikes with 15-17 florets of 9.61 cm in diameter
• Spikes are straight and long with good rachis length (about 45-50 cm)
• Florets are pale yellow and are arranged in two rows
• Good multiplier producing about 2-3 corms and about

Arka Chenna

• Medium sized, 20 per cent bigger than the local
• Petal colour is orange.
• Yield is four times higher than the local variety

Arka Manohar

• Dwarf variety
• Suitable for pot culture and bedding

DFR Pallavi

• Attractive pink coloured double type flowers
• Uses: Loose flower, beds and borders
• Av. plant height is 83.41 cm with good spread (79.54 cm)
• No. of flowers/plant: 174.2
• Av. flower size is 6.88 cm and field-life of flower is 8.6 days

Kalpa Vajra

• Coconut yield: 110 nuts/palm /year)
• Tolerant to: Root wilt disease prevalent in tracts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Kalpa Suvarna

• Tender coconut variety
• Yield: 97 nuts/palm/year with 431 ml tender nut water
• TSS: 5.8°B

Shatamangala

• High yielding, semi tall, early flowering
• Suitable for both tendernut processing and chali (dry kernel) production purposes
• Av. yield: 3.26 kg dry tender processed nuts/palm/ year or 3.96 kg dry kernel/palm/year
• Recommended for cultivation in Karnataka, North Bengal and Gujarat

VTL CS1  

• Red to Orange pods:
• No. of beans/ pod: 42
• Single dry bean wt: 1.13 g
• Shelling: 11%,
• Fat- 52.1%,
• Dry bean yield/ tree/ year: 2.52 kg/tree/year, 1700 kg/ha.

VTL CS2

• Green to Yellow pods
• No. of beans/ pod: 42
• Single dry bean wt: 1.21 g
• Shelling: 15%,
• Fat: 53%
• Dry bean yield: 2.7 kg/ tree/ year, 1850 kg/ha

Nethra Jumbo-1

• A hybrid, big sized cashew nut
• The kernels are bold with 3.4 g average weight
• Fits in to kernel grade of w130

Godavari Swarna

• High FFB yield: 26.87 t/ha/year
• High sex ratio: 0.58
• More bunches per palm: 11.72
• High oil yield/ha: 5.71 t
• Adaptable to moderate rainfall regions (AP and Telangana) under assured irrigation conditions

Godavari Ratna

• FFB yield: 22.44 t/ha/year
• Av. bunch weight: 18.31 kg
• High sex ratio: 0.70
• High mesocarp oil yield: 5.36 t/ha/year
• High oil/bunch ratio: 24.1
• Suitable for high rainfall and assured irrigated conditions of coastal region (Maharashtra and Goa)

IISR-Pragati

• Yield: 38.0 t/ha
• Curcumin: 5.02%
• Oleoresin: 15.29%
• Essential oil: 6.3%

IISR-Varada

• Av. yield: 22.6 t/ha
• Essential oil: 1.75%
• Dry recovery: 20.7%
• Fibre content: 3.29-4.50%

IISR Chandra

• Maturity Group: Early
• Yield: 7.45 kg/vine
• Piperine: 5.10%
• Oleoresin: 8.71%
• Essential oil: 3.20%

Vallabh Navya Tulsi-1 

• Superior herbage yield of 772 q/ ha
• Rich source of methyl eugenol content (80%)

Arka Sampada

• High leaf yield (89.9 lakh leave/ha/per year),
• Moderate pungency,
• Suitable for an open system of cultivation

Chetak Aphim

• Higher latex yield (40.2 kg/ha)
• High Morphine content of 11.9 %

DMR-Button-A-63

• Pure white, rounded cap, high yielding
• High average fruit body weight: 15.86 g

DMR-Button-NBS5-59

• High yielding, browning resistant, thin gill
• High dry weight

DMR-Milky-CI-01

• Av. Fruit body wt: 26.4 g
• Early days of harvest: 37.5 days
• High BE: 65.0%

DMR-Vv-05-19

• Av. Fruit body wt: 18.2
• Early days of harvest: 15.9 days
• High BE: 15.8%

Arka Lion's Mane mushroom

• Edible and medicinal mushroom
• Helps in promotion of nerve and brain health
• Rich in  zinc, potassium, calcium, and beta-glucan polysaccharides