Askari

FAREI, Onion, Variety

Askari

A Short-Day Hybrid Onion Variety

Outstanding Qualities

      • • High yield potential
        • Uniform fall over of leaves
        • Good storage ability

Askari is a yellow hybrid onion variety with high yield potential and is suitable for storage. Plants have a uniform fall over of leaves at maturity. Bulbs are globular, uniform and firm. Yield is comparable to those hybrid varieties which are commercially cultivated locally. The variety adapts well to all onion growing regions except coastal areas having a sandy soil.

Characteristics of ASKARI

Kind

Hybrid Onion (Allium cepa L.)

Type

Short day variety

Leaf growth habit

Erect

Leaf colour

Green

Bulb colour

Yellow

Bulb shape

Globular

Bulb flesh colour

Creamish white with light yellow inner rings

Bulb shape uniformity

Very good

Neck size

Thin*

Scale thickness

Thin*

Scale retention

Very good*

Number of scales at
harvest

2 – 3*

Bulb weight (g)

89.0 – 352.0*

Bulb diameter (cm)

5.4 – 8.8*

Number of inner rings

10 – 12*

Crop cycle (days)

   147 – 156*

Weight loss in
storage

after one month (%)

after two months (%)

after three months (%)

Ambient*

1.9 – 4.1

13.1

36.5

Cold (2 – 4°C)*

0.2

1.0 – 1.8  

1.6 – 2.1

Marketable yield

26.5 – 54.0*

 

* Characteristics vary with agronomic and management practices such as soil type, sowing date, nutrition, plant density and climatic conditions