Landmark varieties
Fruits 
Mango 
CISH Ambika 
  • Fruits weight: 300-350g, 
  • TSS: 21°B
  • Yields: 80-90 kg/plant
  • Mangiferin content: 35.1 µ/g 
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CISH Arunika
  • Fruit weight: 190-210g
  • TSS 24.6 °B
  • Yields: 60-70 kg/plant
  • Mangiferin content: 49.5 µ/g
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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)
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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 
MAngo 6
Arka Udhay
  • High yielding with long shelf life 
  • Late variety comes for harvest by July
mango
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 
Mango
Guava
CISH Shweta
  • Fruit weight: 250 g
  • Ascorbic acid: 300 mg/100g 
  • TSS: 12.5-13.2 °B 
  • Yield: 85-90 kg/plant
gauava
CISH Lalit 
  • Fruit weight: 185-200 g
  • Ascorbic acid: 250 mg/100g 
  • Yield: 100 kg/plant 
  • Pink coloured pulp suitable for both table and processing purposes 
gauava
Arka Kiran
  • A pink pulp variety with average fruit weight 200-220 g and medium soft seeds (9 kg/cm2). 
  • TSS 11-120 brix and lycopene content 7.14 mg/100g.
  • Crop will come to harvest after two years of planting. 
  • Economic yield starts after five years with average fruit yield of 20 t/acre in a spacing of 4m x 3m
gauava
Grapes 
Manjari Manjula
  • A purple black coloured seeded variety 
  • Bold berries (24-26 mm diameter) 
  • Loose bunches for table purpose
grapes
Manjari Madhura
  • A heavy yielding black coloured variety 
  • suitable for both table and munakka purposes
grapes
Manjari Medika 
  • Coloured variety suitable for juice making 
  • Juice recovery 71% 
  • TSS: 19 - 22 °Brix and acidity: 0.5-0.6 % 
  • Anthocyanin content: 4-6 mg/kg
grapes
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. 
Grapes
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
Grapes
Custard Apple 
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/100h 
  • Average fruit weight: 410 g
custard apple
Bael
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
bael
Avocado 
Arka Coorg Ravi
  • Fruit weight ranged from 450-600 g
  • Pulp recovery is > 80%                        
Avacado
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. 
Avacado
Citrus  
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)
citrus
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 
citrus
Vegetables 
Tomato 
Arka Rakshak 
  • First F1 hybrid with triple disease resistance to ToLCV, Bacterial Wilt and early blight. 
  • Fruits square round, large (90-100g), deep red colored and firm. 
  • Suitable for fresh market and processing.
  • Yield: 75-80 t/ha in 140 days.
tomato
Arka Samrat: 
  • High Yielding F1 Hybrids with Triple Disease Resistance to Tomato Leaf Curl Virus + Bacterial Wilt + Early Blight
  • Bred for fresh market and processing
  • Suitable for summer, kharif and rabi seasons 
  • Yields 40-50 tons per acre in 140-150 days
tomato
Brinjal 
Kashi Vijay
  • Tolerant to Phomopsis blight and Fusarium wilt in field conditions. 
  • Recommended for U.P., Bihar, Jharkhand & Punjab
brinjal
Chilli 
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
chilli
French bean 
Arka Arjun 
  • Yield 18.0 t/ha in 70 days
beans
Ridge gourd 
Arka Prasanna
  • Yield -26.0 t/ha in 120-135 days
groud
Okra
Kashi Prakram 
  • Medium tall variety (120-135 cm)
  • Suitable for both summer and rainy season 
  • Fruits are 12-14 cm long, shiny green colour 
  • Yield: 145-155 q/ha, first fruits harvest in 45-47 DAS & fruiting period is 48-115 days. 
  • Resistant to both YVMV and OELCV diseases
okra
Potato

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
Potato
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 
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Onion
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.
onine
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
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Tuber crops 
Cassava
Sree Kaveri 
  • Resistant to cassava mosaic disease 
  • Potential yield: 80 t/ha 
  • 28% Starch and good for industrial purpose 
  • High drought tolerance index (value 1.54)
cassava
Flowers 
Gladiolus 
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 with reddish spots at the base of inner petals. 
  • Good multiplier producing about 1-2 corms and 20-25 cormels 1-2 corms and 20-25 cormels
gladious
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 
gladious
Crossandra  
Arka Chenna 
  • Medium sized, 20 per cent bigger than the local 
  • Petal colour is orange. 
  • Yield is 4 times higher than the local variety
crosssandra
Chrysanthemum  
Arka Manohar
  • Suitable for pot culture and bedding
chrysanthemum
DFR Pallavi: 
  • Attractive pink coloured double type flowers which can be used for loose flower, beds and border purpose 
  • Average plant height is 83.41 cm with good spread (79.54 cm)
  • The plant bears good number of flowers per plant (174.2)
  • The average flower size is 6.88 cm and the field life of flower is 8.6 days
chrysanthemum
Planation crops
Coconut

Kalpa Vajra 

  • Coconut Yield -110 nuts/palm/year) 
  • Tolerant for for root (wilt) disease prevalent tracts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
coconut
Kalpa Suvarna
  • Tender coconut variety 
  • Yield: 97 nuts/palm/year with 431 ml tender nut water 
  • TSS- 5.8 °Brix
coconut
Arecanut 
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
Arecanut
Cocoa

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
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
VTL
Cashew 
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
cashew
Oil Palm  
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
Oil Palm
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) 
Oil Palm
Spices
Turmeric  
IISR-Pragati 
  • Yield- 38.0 t/ha
  • Curcumin- 5.02%
  • Oleoresin-15.29%
  • Essential oil -6.3%
turmeric
Ginger  

IISR-Varada 

  • Average Yield: 22.6 t/ha
  • Essential oil:1.75%
  • Dry recovery:20.7%
  • Fibre content:3.29-4.5%
ginger
Black Pepper  
IISR Chandra
  • Maturity Group: Early
  • Yield: 7.45 kg/vine
  • Piperine: 5.10%
  • Oleoresin: 8.71%
  • Essential oil: 3.20%
Black Pepper
Medicinal and Aromatic plants 
Holy basil: Ocimum tenuiflorum
Vallabh Navya Tulsi-1  
  • Superior herbage yield of 772 q/ ha 
  • Rich source of Methyl eugenol (80%) content
holy basil
Betel vine: Piper betel
Arka Sampada 
  • High leaf yield (89.9 lakh leave/ha/per year), 
  • Moderate pungency, 
  • Suitable for an open system of cultivation
betel vine
Opium poppy
Chetak Aphim 
  • Higher latex yield (40.2 kg/ha)
  • High Morphine content of 11.9 %
Poppy
Mushroom
DMR-Button-A-63
  • Pure white, rounded cap, high yielding 
  • High average fruit body weight: 15.86 g
Mushroom
DMR-Button-NBS5-59
  • High yielding, Browning resistant, thin gill, High dry weight
Mushroom
DMR-milky-CI-01
  • Average Fruit body wt:26.4,
  • Early Days of Harvest:37.5, 
  • High BE: 65.0%
Mushroom
DMR-Vv-05-19
  • Average Fruit body wt:18.2, 
  • Early days of harvest:15.9 days, 
  • High BE :15.8%
Mushroom
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 
Mushroom
Biofortified Varieties
Pomegranate
Solapur Lal 
  • Fruit Yield: 36.72 kg/plant
  • TSS: 17.6 o B  
  • Titrable acidity: 0.40%  
  • Anthocyanin: 395 mg/100g     
  • Ascorbic acid: 19.6 mg/100g
Pomegranate
Potato
Kufri Jamunia
  • Medium maturing (90 days), high-yielding speciality table potato clone (high anthocyanin content with purple flesh).
  • Recommended for Northern, Central and Eastern plains
  • Dark purple, oblong tubers with shallow eyes and purple flesh, very good storability under ambient storage conditions
potato
Sweet Potato
Bhu Sona
  • Rich in provitamin-A (14.0 mg/100 g) 
  • Tuber yield: 19.8 t/ha
  • Dry matter: 27.0-29.0%
  • Starch content: 20.0%
  • Total sugars: 2.0-2.4%
Sweet potato
Bhu Krishna 
  • Rich in anthocyanin (90.0 mg/100g) 
  • Tuber yield: 18.0 t/ha
  • Dry matter: 24.0-25.5%
  • Starch: 19.5 %
  • Total sugars: 1.9-2.2%
  • Salinity stress tolerant
Sweet potato
Greater Yam
Da-40 
  • Rich in anthocyanins (141.4 mg/100g), iron (136.2 ppm) and calcium (1890 ppm) 
  • Tuber yield: 80.0 t/ha 
  • Maturity: 240-270 days
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