There are several area-specific local selections of Jamun identified by farmers or local people based on fruit size, shape, and taste, fruiting and fruit maturity time. Some such selections grown in North India are given below-
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Ra-Jamun |
Fruits are oblong, large, juicy, sweet, deep purple coloured and small seeded |
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Badama |
Fruits are large and very juicy |
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Kaatha |
Fruits are small and acidic |
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Jathi |
Fruits ripen in May-June |
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Ashada |
Fruits ripen in June-July |
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Bhado |
Fruits ripen in August |
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Narendra Jamun 6 |
Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad, U.P. |
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Rajendra Jamun 1 |
Bihar Agricultural College, Bhagalpur, Bihar. |
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Konkan Bahadoli |
Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla, Maharashtra. |
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Goma Priyanka |
Central Horticultural Experiment Station (CHES), Godhra, Gujarat. |
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CISH J-42(Seedless type) |
Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (CISH), Lucknow,U.P. |
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CISH J-37 |
Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (CISH), Lucknow,U.P. |
Authors:
Deepa Samant, H.S. Singh and P. Srinivas
Central Horticultural Experiment Station (IIHR),
Aiginia, Bhubaneswar-751 019