Kanakaprabha

• Evolved through varietal hybridization from Delcrest x DB 101 cross. Medium tall, 1.3 to 1.5 m high, leaves erectly attached, stiff with raised midrib and acute tip.
• Leaves linear elliptic, dark green, 18-20 curable leaves, uniform in leaf maturity. Flowering from 65 to 70 days after planting. Panicle compact, heavy with light pink flowers.

CTRI Special

• By purification and selection and towards specific characters from the variety Special FCV tall 1.5m, to1.7 m high, semi-open habit with horizontally inserted leaves dropping at the margins, Colour of the stem creamy green.
• Leaves bright green in colour, 22 to 24 curable leaves. Margin undulating, Flowering 65-70 days after planting. Panicle loose, flowers light pink. Leaf fast maturing.

CTRI Special (MR)

• An isogenic line of CTRI Special with glutinous type of resistance to mosaic disease (Tobacco Mosaic Virus). Morphological characters are similar to CTRI Special.

Jayasree

Jayasree

A selection from a cross between a genetic mutant and a structural mutant, Tall 1.9 m high.

• Vigorous in growth with medium broad, ovate, puckered, think bodied light green leaves.
• Short internodes, 26-28 curable leaves. Flowering in 80 days after planting. Large panicle with good seed setting and leaf fast maturing.

Jayasree (MR)

• An isogenic line of Jayasree carrying glutinous type of TMV resistance. Morphological features are same as Jayasree.

Godavari Special

Godavari Special

A tall variety with 1.7 m height, erect habit with creamy stem, leaf broadly lanceolate with wavy margin and acute tip.

• Leaf surface smooth, inflorescence open and medium in size, produces 20-22 curable leaves, matures in 55-60 days after planting and flowers in 65-70 days after planting.
• Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

Hema

• Released in 1987. plant, tall erect with broad lanceolatemedium puckered leaves, medium maturing with yield potential above 1700 kg/ha.

Hema	Popular in the black soil belt of Andhra Pradesh

Hema (MR)

• Tobacco mosaic virus resistant version of Hema, identified during 1996, similar to Hema in plant habit and other distinguishing characters

Gouthami

• Released in 1992.A variety with productivity level above 2000 kg/ha and 70% bright grade out turn. Plants with semi erect long and broad leaves with entire margin and prominent auricle near leaf base.
• Medium green cast in nature with short internodes with 23-24 curable leaves per plant and 28 total leaves on plant.

VT-1158

• Resistant to TMV and has high productivity level of 2000 kg/ha. Plant habit open with horizontal inserted drooping medium puckered and good bodied leaves.
• Colour of matured leaf is light green and stem is creamy green. Flowers in about 70-80 days, short internodes with 20-24 curable leaves and less prominent auricle near leaf base.

Mc Nair-12

• It is an erect type with dark cast. Leaves are broad ovate, inserted vertically giving a bouquet shape.

Mc NAIR-12

leaves are puckered, inflorescence compact and medium in flowering.

• An introduction from USA. It is a short but vigorous type with 1.1 m height under topped condition in northern light soils.
• Internodes are very close. Matures in about 65 days after planting. Resistant black shank. It is well suited for the northern light soils of Andhra Pradesh.
• It is an erect type with leaves distributed evenly on the stalk with moderate internodal space. The stalk and the leaves are dark green in colour. Leaf is long and broad, ovate with entire margin and acute tip.
• The midrib is prominent with regular veining pattern. Auricle is broad, smooth leaf surface, leaves are medium to heavy bodied and upto the middle plant positions, leaves show a rolling growth with dropping upto the centre of the leaf.
• Flowers in about 55-60 days after planting and flowers are whitish pink. Gives about 1591 kg/ha of cured leaf yield.

16/103(MR)

16/103MR

Plant grows up to 1.65 m. in un-topped condition.

• It resembles the presently cultivated variety 16/103 in all respects. This variety requires 70 kg N/ha under normal conditions.
• The plant possesses 18 to 20 curable leaves with short internodes. This variety produces deep lemon to lemon orange, matured, open grained cured leaf.
• The variety is resistant to most common disease tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). It yields up to 1800 kg/ha cured leaf.

CM-12(KA)

• Released in 1993. Suitable for Northern Light Soil developed from McNair-12 through Chemical mutagenesis.
• Plants are medium tall with 21-23 curable leaves. Leaves are long and broad ovate with lightly bent leaf tip and dark green in colour with heavy puckering.
• Internodes medium to short and maturity of leaves medium to slow. Plant habit and nature is desirable for light soils and mostly akin to the variety 16/103.
• This is endowed with resistance to Black Shank disease. Average yield potentiality of the line is around 2000 kg/ha with high grade out turn, in comparison to 16/103 and about 15% yield and quality improvement is noticed.

NLS-4

• Plants with semi erect habit, leaves are longer (62 to 66 cm), lanceolate with acute to acuminate tip with wavy lamina and green cast in nature with short internodes and 20 to 22 curable leaves.
• Leaf maturity is slower than to light/medium cast varieties grown in this tract. Resistant to all the three races of Phytopthora parasitica var. nicotianae causing black-shank disease.
• Less susceptible to root knot (all the three sps. of Meloidogyne). The recommended doses of fertilisers are 60-70 kg N/ha, 60 kg P2O5 and 80-120 kg K2O/ha.
• Cured leaves are deep lemon to orange coloured, open grained, medium bodied, mature, semi flavourful oily and fluffy. Average yield under normal conditions is 1900 kg/ha.

NLS-5

• Plants grow up to 1.6 to 1.75 m. under topped condition. Plants are medium to tall, leaves are long, slightly broad with narrow tip.
• Leaves on maturity droop down and slightly twisted and highly puckered. Internodes short and leaves medium to slow in maturity. It yields 24 to 26 curable leaves.
• Tolerant/resistant to black shank. Under normal management and favourable conditions, this variety requires 80 kg N/ha and under unfavourable conditions (excess rainfall during late kharif season), it would require another 10 to 15 kg N/ha to produce maximum cured leaf.
• It yields around 2200 kg/ha with bright lemon orange to orange colour, matured, open grained cured leaf.

Varieties recommended for Karnataka light soils

Swarna

• Released in 1984. A powdery mildew resistant variety developed on kanakaprabha base and released for high rainfall zones of KLS. Which are endemic for powdery mildew disease.
• Plants are erect with cliptic leaves. 20-22 curable leaves. Cured produce is orange in colour bodies, open grained and agreable aroma, yields around 1500 kg/ha

Bhavya

• Plant is tall and uniformly maturing. Resistant to black shank and root knot. Cured leaves are orange-lemon in colour, medium bodied grainy and less spotted, produces 60-75% bright grades under extremely dry conditions it tends to produce spotless (J style) tobacco.
• It has yield potential of 2000 kg/ha presently grown in large areas and meets the requirement of trade.

• "Burley-21" and "Ky-14" were introduced in the burley tracts of Andhra Pradesh.
• The yields range from 1200 to 1300 kg/ha. The cured leaf of "Burley-21" is of rich tan brown colour, thin, elastic, with high filling value and less shatterability.
• This tobacco is highly suitable for blending with flue-cured tobacco in cigarette manufacture due to its high-filling value.

HEBRG

• A Brazilian tobacco HARVEL DE BOUXO RIO GRANDE (HDBRG) was introduced for cultivation in Guntur tract which has got good export potential as "HD Burley".
• The cured leaf has high filling value and higher leaves of nicotine and is used for blending.

Olor-10

• A Cigar filler tobacco variety from USA was acclimatized and introduced into the cigar tobacco belt of Tamil Nadu.
• The leaves are puckered and less spotted. It yields about 1800 kg/ha.

• These are 'desi' types of tobacco with specific method of curing viz., air-curing, sun-curing, shade-curing, pit-curing, ground-curing and fire or smoke curing. The nicotine content is generally high in these tobaccos.

Bidi Tobacco

• This is mainly grown in Kheda, Vadodara and Panchamahals districts of Gujarat and Nipani area comprising Belgaum district of Karnataka and part of Kolhapur as well as Sangli districts of Maharashtra.
• More than 80% of bidi tobacco is produced in Gujarat. The Bidi Tobacco Research Station at Anand which is the main Centre of AICRP(T) is working for the improvement of bidi and rustica tobacco. The entire bidi tobacco area is under the improved varieties Anand-2, Anand-119, GT-4 and GT-5.
• GTH-1 is a hybrid bidi tobacco with yield level above 3600 kg/ha tolerant to root knot. Suitable for irrigated bidi tobacco growing areas of Gujarat.

Varietal Improvement of Bidi Tobacco

Variety	Productivity (kg/ha)		Special features
	Gujarat	Karnataka
Anand-2 (1969)	2300-2700	3000-3500 (irrigated)	Leaf burn resistant tolerant to black shank disease.
Anand-119 (1969)	2200-2700	3000-3500 (irrigated)	Leaf burn resistant. It is fairly tolerant to drought and is grown in more than 80% area
GT-4 (1976)	2600-3500	-	Drought tolerant and field tolerance to root-knot nematodes
PL-5 (1984)	-	1500	Suitable for rainfed area
GT-5 (1986)	2800-4100	-	Shy suckering, tolerant to root-knot and rich in nicotine
GTH-1	3600	-	Irrigated bidi tobacco area of Gujarat, Root knot tolerant

Chewing Tobacco

• The sun-cured produce is dark brown in colour. The cured leaves posses white crystalline encrustation and are medium pungent in taste.

Chewing tobacco varieties for Gujarat

GC-1 (N.rustica)

• It was released by Bidi Tobacco Research Station, Anand. It yields 31% more than the local variety. The yield ranges from 2000-4000 kg/ha under middle Gujarat conditions.

Chewing tobacco varieties for Bihar

Gandak Bahar

(2280 kg/ha)

Sona

(3178 kg/ha)

Prabha

(2300 kg/ha) were developed and released for North Bihar.

Vaishali

(2778 kg/ha)

Pusa tobacco

-76 for Samatipur and Mizzafapur districts of Bihar

Chewing tobacco varieties for Tamil Nadu

Vairam

(2800 kg/ha)

Thangam

(3226 kg/ha)

Bhagyalakshmi

(3532 kg/ha)

Meenakshi

(4000 kg/ha)

Abirami

(4000 kg/ha)

Maragadham

(3013 kg/ha) were released.

Bhagyalakshmi

Bhagyalakshmi is recommended for Madurai, Trichy and part of Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu.

Chewing tobacco varieties for Bengal

• Chama and Podali varieties were evolved through natural selection from farmers' bulk for cultivation in North Bengal.
• Chama is early maturing with an yield potential of 1557 kg/ha Podali (1600 kg/ha) is a late maturing variety.

Hookah Tobacco

DD 437

• It is a motihari tobacco belonging to N.rustica, evolved as a single plant selection from bulk crop of "Hemti". DD 437 was released in 1977 for the motihari tobacco growing areas of West Bengal. It yields about 1865 kg/ha with good flavour.

Sonar Motihari

• With a yield of 1690 kg/ha was released for commercial cultivation in hookah tract of North Bengal.
• GC-1 (N.Rustica) was developed and released by BTRS, Anand. Yields 31% more than local variety. The yield ranges from 2000-4000 kg/ha under middle Bihar conditions.

Cheroot Tobacco

• Bhavani Special" (2837 kg/ha) and "Sendarapatty Special" (2100 kg/ha) were released in 1980 and 1986 respectively for country cheroot tract of Tamil Nadu.
• Lanka Special, a powdery mildew resistant variety was developed and released during 1981 for cultivation on the islands of Godavari river.
• It yields 2500 kg/ha of cured leaf having good aroma, burning quality and high nicotine content. The leaf is petiolate and boat-shaped.
• DR-1 released in 1960 was also under cultivation in river side lankas.

Viswanath

Natu tobacco varieties viz., "Prabhat" (1500 kg/ha), in 1977 and "Viswanath" (1800 kg/ha) in 1986 were released for cultivation for natu tract of Andhra Pradesh.

Cigar Filler Tobacco

• krishna variety (2250 kg/ha) was released in 1986 for the cigar filler tobacco belt of Tamil Nadu.

Cigar Wrapper Tobacco

• S-5 variety was released in 1977 for wrapper tobacco tract of North West Bengal. It yields 1476 kg/ha of fine, silky and thin bodied cured leaves with light green/brown shades.