PEA

Asauji is a small, green pea cultivar with silky seeds. This cultivar produces singular pods. 30-35 days after sowing, the flowers will bloom. This pea type produces pods that are around 8 centimetres long, curved, dark green in colour, and thin in shape. When completely formed, these peas are spherical and comprise seven seeds.

At Jabalpur, the Jawahar Matar variety was created from the hybridization of T19 and Early Badger, followed by selections. The plant is 70-75 cm tall and has a bushy growth style. The pods are roundish-oval in shape, light green in colour, and contain 4-5 wrinkled seeds. The first harvest can begin 50 to 55 days after planting.

Medium-height plants comprise the lincon variety. It is often bisexual, and its pods are dark green, curved, and large, containing 8 to 9 wrinkled seeds. Around 85-90 days after sowing, the first harvest of this cultivar can begin. This cultivar produces approximately 10t/ha of pods on average.

At Ludhiana, the Punjab 88 variety of peas was produced by making selections from the hybrid offspring of the cross Pusa02 Morriss-55. This variety produces small, strong, upright plants with dark green foliage. The first harvest for this variety may occur 100 days after seeding. The pods are tall, dark green, and somewhat bent in the middle, and they contain 7-8 green, wrinkled, and less tasty seeds.

The Azad P-2 is a powdery mildew-resistant variety that was produced at Kalyanpur by enhanced generation selection of the Bonneville 6587 cross. This type has tall, upright plants with light green leaves and white blooms. The pods of Azad P-2 are medium in size, light green, straight, smooth, and firm, and they bear two clusters of 6-7 wrinkled and dark brown seeds.

The Ooty-1 was created at Udhagamandalam using pure line selection from the PS 33 accession. This dwarf plant has a yield potential of 11.9 t/ha and a crop duration of 90 days. The Ooty-1 has whitefly resistance.