| VARIETY |
PLANT SPACING(cm) |
MATURITY IN DAYS |
AVERAGE YIELD/ACRE (KG) |
IDEAL CLIMATE |
SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES |
|
Red Niece
|
30 x 10/ 30 x 5
|
120
|
25,000
|
Cool and wet
|
- Deep red hybrid onion
- Very good drying and keeping quality
- Tolerant to pink rot diseases
- Produce good onions
- Uniform maturity
- Easy manage
- Can store for upto 12 months
|
|
Red Creole
|
30 x 10/ 30 x 5
|
150-180
|
10,000
|
Warm and hot
|
- Attractive shaped red onion
- Good storage qualities
- Tolerant to Pink rot disease
- Easy to manage
|
|
Bombay Red
|
30 x 10/30 x 5
|
120-150
|
6,000-7,000
|
Warm and hot
|
- Globular shaped deep red onion
- Provides good grade onions
- Dries well
- Widely grown
|
|
Texas Grano
|
30 x 10/30 x 5
|
150
|
12,000
|
Cool and warm
|
- The ideal ‘grano’ type onion
- Straw coloured outer skin and white inner flesh
- Mild tasting. Ideal for salads
- Easy to grow and widely adapted
|
|
Spring Onion-Green bunching
|
30 x drill
|
85-90
|
Bunched onion
|
Cool and warm
|
- Grown for its green slender sweet tasting leaves
- Ideal salad onion
- Early maturing
- Easy to manage
|
|
American Flag
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- Extra long and thick white shaft
- Good pungency
- Uniform growth
- Widely adaptable
- Vigorous growth
|
|
Italian Giant
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
- A fast growing strain, early maturity
- Stem is white and with fine flavor
- Medium long thick roots
- Heavy yielder
|
