Assessment of Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) Varieties for Growth, Flowering, Fruiting, Yield and Quality

Abstract

A field trail in a complete Randomized Design was conducted at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal during 2010-2011 to assess the growth, flowering, fruiting, yield and quality of tamarind of five varieties namely PKM-1, Urigam, Vantoor, Red and Sweet. The results indicated superiority of variety PKM-1 with plant height (445.33-569 cm), East-west canopy expansion (458.67-604.00 cm), number of fruit retention panicle -1 (44.33%), TSS (48 0 Brix), total sugar (40.33 g) with lower acidity (6.7 mg). The variety Urigam exhibited better performance with the characters like canopy expansion in North South direction (491.00 -612.00 cm), trunk girth (39-52 cm), number of flowers panicle -1 (14.33), number of fruit set panicle -1 (10.33), fruit length (20.67 cm) and diameter (25.30 mm), fruit weight (17.77 g) and fruit yield tree -1 (1388 g). Varieties Urigam and PKM-1 may be introduced in West Bengal for commercial cultivation.

GKVK-17: A new high yielding variety of Tamarind (<em>Tamarindus indica</em> L.) for Southern region of Karnataka

“…Based on these results GKVK -17 is considered as the elite high yielding clone which recorded superior and consistent yield over the years. Similarly Tania et al (2018) [13] and Pooja et al (2018) [11] were also evaluated tamarind varieties for their growth, flowering, fruit bearing and yield parameters. The physico morphological characters of elite tamarind clones were evaluated and presented in Table-2 and Plate-1.…”