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    Prathibha Is An Improved Turmeric Variety

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    Prathibha is an improved turmeric variety developed through sexual breeding at the Indian Institute of Spices Research, making it one of two turmeric varieties evolved in this manner. It proved more adaptable and acceptable to farmers over time compared to the other variety, likely due to better phenotypic plasticity. Farmers in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra have found success growing Prathibha due to its high yields, short duration, rot tolerance, and good quality. Prathibha matures in 195-220 days with average yields of 39 tons per hectare.

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    Prathibha Is An Improved Turmeric Variety

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    Prathibha is an improved turmeric variety developed through sexual breeding at the Indian Institute of Spices Research, making it one of two turmeric varieties evolved in this manner. It proved more adaptable and acceptable to farmers over time compared to the other variety, likely due to better phenotypic plasticity. Farmers in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra have found success growing Prathibha due to its high yields, short duration, rot tolerance, and good quality. Prathibha matures in 195-220 days with average yields of 39 tons per hectare.

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    Prathibha is an improved turmeric variety developed through sexual breeding at the Indian Institute of Spices Research, making it one of two turmeric varieties evolved in this manner. It proved more adaptable and acceptable to farmers over time compared to the other variety, likely due to better phenotypic plasticity. Farmers in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra have found success growing Prathibha due to its high yields, short duration, rot tolerance, and good quality. Prathibha matures in 195-220 days with average yields of 39 tons per hectare.

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    Prathibha Is An Improved Turmeric Variety

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    Prathibha is an improved turmeric variety developed through sexual breeding at the Indian Institute of Spices Research, making it one of two turmeric varieties evolved in this manner. It proved more adaptable and acceptable to farmers over time compared to the other variety, likely due to better phenotypic plasticity. Farmers in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra have found success growing Prathibha due to its high yields, short duration, rot tolerance, and good quality. Prathibha matures in 195-220 days with average yields of 39 tons per hectare.

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    P rathibha is an improved turmeric variety-a unique one being one of the two

    turmeric varieties evolved through sexual breeding method (through the seeds
    obtained from turmeric flowers) for the first time in the world (the other one is its
    celestial twin Prabha). All other turmeric varieties, numbering about 22, are evolved
    through asexual means of rhizome selection or mutation breeding. Prathibha along
    with Prabha are evolved at the Indian Institute of Spices

    Prathibha
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    Research, Kozhikode, Kerala over years of concerted research right from collecting
    seeds from mother turmeric plant, its germination and gradual multiplication coupled
    with careful selection of superior seedling progenies. Out of the two varieties so
    evolved from the true turmeric seedlings, Prathibha, proved to be more adaptable
    and acceptable to the farming community over the course of time, may be due to its
    better phenotypic plasticity.

    Prathibha, proved to be more adaptable and acceptable to the


    farming community over the course of time, may be due to its
    better phenotypic plasticity.
    Experience of farmers like K. Sasikumar, Nattinchira, Trissur, Ph.944715154;
    P.C.Cherian, Valakam, Muvattupuzha, Ph.0485-2209166;
    P. Abdul Nabeel, Meppayyur, Kozhikode, Ph.0496-2676542 testifies the success of the
    variety in Kerala. Crossing the borders of Kerala over Western Ghats, the variety has
    earned a name and fame in far and wide states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra etc.
    P.Chandrasekhar Azad, Maruti Pearls, Kunchanappally, Guntur, Ph.9490878942 , a 68
    year old farmer, is now a fan of Prathibha. Convinced with Prathibha’s prathibha for
    the last 5years, Azad, son of a freedom fighter, has now ventured up on the task of
    popularizing the variety in the entire state of Andhra Pradesh, the largest turmeric
    producing state in the country with about 60,000 ha. under the crop. He takes
    classes on Prathibha cultivation to farmer’s groups, arranges visit of farmers and
    officials to his 4.5 acre plot of Prathibha at Guntur and even supplies good quality
    Prathibha seed rhizomes to the state department of horticulture and interested
    farmers. High yield, short duration, tolerance to rhizome rot and good quality are the
    features that endear Prathibha to Andhra farmers. Similarly, Mr.Prakash Y. Pol ,Wai,
    Satara, Ph.9423260764 is one of the beneficiaries of the variety from Maharashtra.
    Prathibha is a medium duration variety, maturing in195-220 days, with an average
    yield of 39 t ha-1 (fresh). Its dry recovery is 18.5 per cent, curcumin under Kerala
    condition is 6.2 per cent and total curcuminoids 5.46 per cent. Oleoresin and oil
    yields are 16.2 and 6.2 per cent, respectively. Rhizomes are medium sized.

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