DTPH-60?: New Promising Tomato Hybrid For Cultivation Under Protected Conditions


Date & Time: 2019-05-30 16:25:03

For cultivation under protected condition, the varieties, as well as cultivation practices, are different from the open field condition. As present vegetables, like cucumber, tomato and capsicum are the most popular and commercially grown vegetables for the protected condition. As we know that tomato is a third important vegetable in India after potato and onion from a production point of view, which evident from its total production of 19.4 million tonnes and productivity level of 24.7t/ha at all India level (NHB Database 2017-18).  Moreover, at present no hybrid of tomato is available with the public sector for protected condition and the private sectors are selling hybrid seeds at a very high cost  Keeping above in view, Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-IARI have developed several genotypes /hybrids which are under processes of release to provide farmers seeds of these varieties/hybrids at reasonable prices and ensure production of high-value vegetables having quality fruits round the year. The most promising line hybrid DTPH-60 was demonstrated at Chomu, Jaipur Rajasthan on Farmers field during 2018-19. Salient features of tomato hybrid DTPH-60  It is a hybrid variety of tomato suitable for cultivation under protected condition.  Fruits are round, deep red in colour with an average fruit weight of 108 g.  The ripe red fruits have TSS 5.2 of Brix and lycopene content 6.0 mg/100g.  It gives an average yield of 8-10 kg/plant in 7-8 months’ crop duration.  The average yield potential is 15 q from 100 square meter area of the playhouse.