Groundnut

Seed Varieties

Introduction Groundnut Growing Zones Of India List Of Groundnut Varieties Released Statewise Groundnut Varieties Of Uttarpradesh

Introduction

India is facing shortage of edible oils at present due to which we have to resort to large scale imports at the expense of huge foreign exchange.
Groundnut is the major oilseeds crop accounting for 45 percent of oilseeds area and 55 percent of oilseeds production of the country.
As such this crop has to play a major role in bridging the vegetable oil gap in the country.
But the current average yield level of 748 kg/ha is deplorably low as compared to what is being obtained in most of the groundnut growing countries in the world.
One of the main reasons for the low yield of production in the country is the wide scale non-adoption of newer varieties.
It is a well established fact that adoption of an improved variety alone can increase the yield by about 20 per cent.
In India over 60 improved groundnut varieties have been released by our scientists for general cultivation.

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Groundnut Growing Zones Of India

Owing to the vast agro-ecological situation in which Kharif groundnut is grown the entire area has been divided into six zones as follows:

Zone I (North Zone)

Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and Northern Rajasthan (Jaipur, Ajmer, Bharatpur, Sawi Madhopur and Tonk districts).

Zone II (Western Zone)

Gujarat, Southern Rajasthan (Chittorgarh, Udaipur and Jhalawar districts).

Zone III (Central Zone)

Madhya Pradesh (excluding Mandsour and Ratlam districts) and Maharashtra (excluding Satara, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Osmanabad and Nanded districts).

Zone IV (south-eastern zone)

Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh (Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam, districts) and Southern Maharashtra (satara, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Osmanbad and Nanded districts).

Zone V (Peninsular zone)

Karnataka, Andhrapradesh, (excluding Srikakulam and Vishakapatnam, districts) and Southern Maharastra (Satara, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Osmanabad and Nanded districts).

Zone VI (Southern zone)

Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

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List Of Groundnut Varieties Released State-Wise

States involved	No of varieties evolved	Habit groups
		Bunch		Virginia
		Spanish	Valencia	Semi spreading	Spreading
Zone I (Northern Zone)
Bihar	2	-	-	BG1	1
Haryana	2	MH1	MH2	-	-
Punjab	8	SG84	-	C 501	PG 1
				M 145	M 13
				M 197	M 37
					M 335
Rajasthan	2	-	-	RSB 87s	RS 1
Uttar pradesh	5		-	T 28	Chandra
				T 64	Chitra
				Kaushal (G 201)	(MA 10)
Total	19	2	1	9	7
Zone II (Western Zone)
Gujarat	5	J 11	-	-
		GAUG 1	-	-	GAUG 10
		GG 2			GG 11
TOTAL	5	3	-	-	2
Zone III (Central Zone)
Madhya Pradesh	2	Jyoti	Gangapuri	-	-
Maharashtra	9	AK 12-24	Kopergaon	TG 1	Karad
		SB XI		(Vikram)	4-11
		JL 24		Koper gaon1
		TG 17		UF 70-103
TOTAL	11	5	2	3	1
Zone IV (South – Eastern Zone)
Orissa	2	Kisan	-	-	-
		Jawan
TOTAL	2	2	-	-	-
Zone V (Peninsular Zone)
Andhra Pradesh	4	ICGS 11	-	Kadiri 2	Kadiri 71-1
				Kadiri 3
Karnataka	6	Spanish	-	-	S 230
		Improved
		S 206
		DH 3-30
		KRG 1
		DH 8
Total	10	6	-	2	2
Zone VI (Southern Zone)
Tamilnadu	16	TMV 2	-	TMV 6	TMV 1
		TMV 5		TMV 8	TMV 3
		TMV 7		TMV 10	TMV 4
		POL 1
		TMV 9
		POL 2	TMV 11
		TMV 12
		CO 1
		CO 2
Total	16	9	1	3	3
Grandtotal	63	27	4	17	15

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Groundnut Varities of Uttar Pradesh

Variety	Characteristics	Duration (Days)	Yield (Qt/ha)	Suitable area	Shelling %
1	2	3	4	5	6
T-64	Bunch type thick seed 2 seed ped pot	115-120	20-25	Whole U.P	70
T-28	Spreading type 3 seeds per pod	130-135	18-20	Whole U.P	72
Chandra (AH-114)	Spreading type bold seeds 2 seeds iper pod	130-135	25-30	Whole U.P	70
H-13	Spreading type bold seeds 1-2 seeds per pot	135-140	25-28	Whole U.P	70
Chitra (MA-10)	1-2 seeds per pod half spread	125-130	25-30	Whole U.P	72
Kaushal (G-209)	Bunch type medium seed	Unirrigated 108-112	15-20	Whole U.P	72
Prakash	Spreading type 1-2 bold seeds	Irrigated 115-120	20-25	Whole U.P	70
Ambar (84-1)	Spreading type 2 seeds per pod pink seed white coat	115-120	35-40	Whole U.P	72

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