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A New Early Variety of Onion (Alllum capa L.)for TamilNadu

Volume : 62
Issue: Feb-feb
Pages: 44 - 47
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Abstract


The early high yielding Co 2 onion as strain is of economic significance particularly in gardenised farming.An yield of about 12 tonnes of wet bulb can be harvested in just over 2 months of cropping period.This variety has been found to retain its earliness both in summer and winter months.The per day production of this variety works out to 183kg.Thenon-boiling nature of this variety is afavourable trait which promotes compared with the existing improved onion variety CO1 has been brought out.

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44 - 47
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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