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Varieties presentation
Soil & Seed SaversAnnadanaIntroduction to our soil
nutrition management components
Green manure ‐ grown in situ‐integrated @ 16 tons per acre
Compost application @ 10 tons peracre ( 4 tractor load per acre)
Charcoal @ 250 kg per acre
Inoculation of charcoal withnatural microbial solution andplant extract.
Soil & Seed SaversAnnadanaGreen manures are the foundation of our soil fertility strategy
They add 10 to 20tons of bio massper acre in 45‐50days.
Their rootsystems structurethe soil, dig deepdown andenriched the soilstrata.
Sorghum and cow pea Daincha‐ Sesbania Sun hemp‐ Crotalaria
Removing gradually the soil around roots and observing roots hairs formation
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Composting farm residues and local available resources
Our compostrate vary fromcrops and soilcondition from 5to 10 tons peracre (2 to 4tractors loadsper acre)
Water plantsCoconut fiber Cow dung
Village level compost yard
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Inoculation of charcoal with organic nutrients, growth promoter, effective microorganism and plant extracts.
Panchagavia EM+ Neem oil Inoculating the charcoal Mix well
1 gr of charcoal has an internal surfaceequal to one football field.
Charcoal has immense property to storeand retain nutrient which will berelease to plant as they grow.
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Digging pits in the raised bedField to be planted Adding 100 gr inoculated charcoal by pit
Adding 1.5 kg compost and 0.5 kg vermi compost by pit PlantingBest result from the past
years !!
Land preparation‐ Pit composting + Charcoal amendment
Soil & Seed SaversAnnadanaAnnadana Tomatoes varieties
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BurbankThis is a very sweet and juicy, heavyyielder variety. This variety combinesdisease resistance, high in amino acidswith high productivity. Excellent formarket garden and highlyrecommended.From transplant 60 daysYield: 36‐ 40 tones per hectare in good organic condition.100 gram fruits
Red Tomato
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Golden Delight
Orange Tomato
One of the very best early yellow‐ orange tomatoes. The flavor issweet. This variety has a thick skin resistant to splitting. It iscompact, vigorous with determinate growth. Excellent formarket garden and highly recommended.Yield: 36‐ 40 tones per hectare in good organic condition.From transplant : 55‐65 days / 90‐120, gram fruits.
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Beautiful fruits Wonderful mildsweet flavor.Delicate gourmet variety Growth isindeterminate.From Transplant 75 days.300 ‐ 1200 gram fruitsYield: 17‐ 20 ton per hectare in goodorganic condition.
Orenburg GiantRed Tomato
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Mountain Gold
The fruits are uniform and very large.They are mild and resistant tosplitting. The variety is very vigorousand resistant. Determinate growth.Highly recommendedFrom Transplant: 80 daysYield: 28‐32 ton per hectare in goodorganic condition.
Orange Tomato
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This variety is highly productive of5cm diameter round reddish orangefruits. Indeterminate growth.Excellent for market garden.From transplant : 60 daysYield: 30‐35 ton per hectare
TigerellaRed Tomato
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This variety is a heavy producer ofbright orange fruits. The flavor issweet. Excellent for market gardenand highly recommended.Determinate growth.From transplant:60 days.120‐180 gram fruitsYield: 28‐32 ton per hectare in goodorganic condition.
Orange QueenOrange Tomato
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Black Tomato
One of the sweetest tomato variety. Thefruits ripen from deep mahogany toblack‐brown. The color develops bestwhen the weather is sunny. Very muchappreciated. This variety is productiveand slightly prone to cracking.Indeterminate growth.Delicate gourmet varietyFrom transplant: 70‐75 daysYield: 12‐15 tons per hectare in organic condition.
Black of Crimee
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Orange Ox heartVery large heart shaped fruits.The fruits are meaty with fewseeds. The vines are large.Medium productivity.Indeterminate growth. From transplant: 80 days.250 ‐ 400 gram fruitsYield: 13‐16 tons per hectare
Orange Tomato
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The plants are loaded with 5cmround fruits. These nice slicers arevery juicy and have incredibly richfruity flavor. The fruits should beharvested when still showing atrace of green.Indeterminate growth. From transplant: 70 days.80‐120 gram fruitsYield: 12‐16 tons per hectare
Black Prince
Black Tomato
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Caro RichA deep orange fruits which offer aextremely high level of vitamin A,10 times as mush as most othertomatoes.This variety is delicious and veryproductive.Highly recommendedIndeterminate growthFrom transplant 70 days120‐150 gram fruitsYield: 22‐28 tons per acre
Orange Tomato
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Black from TulaPurple‐red fruits, thetexture is creamy andthe flavor is sweet andslightly salty. Thisvariety sets fruitsremarkably well evenin hot weather. Theplants are pretty smalland moderatelyproductive.
Delicate gourmetvariety
Indeterminate growth.From transplant : 75days
250‐ 500 gr fruitsYield: 7‐10 tons perhectare
Black Tomato
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The vigorous vines giveabundant harvests of pink,oval shaped, medium sizedfruits. The flavor is very sweetand rich. The variety is welladapted to adverseconditions.Indeterminate growth.Moderate yielderFrom transplant : 65 days.50 gram oval fruits17.7 tons per hectare
Olirose of St Domingue
Pink Tomato
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Des Andes
Roma type – Red Tomato
The pepper –shaped fruits aremeaty with fewseeds and richflavor. One of thebest tastingtomato.
Semi‐determinategrowth.
Moderateproducer
From transplant70 days.
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Green Sausage
Roma type – Green Tomato
A compact good producer variety ofunusual green peeper shaped tomato.
Thick flesh, slightly acidic tomato,excellent for salad.
From Transplant 70 days
Yield: 12‐15 tons per hectare
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Podland PinkCHERRY‐ Pink Tomato
The vigorous vines produce anabundance of small oblong fruits. Thefruits have a unique pink color. Thisvariety is drought resistant.Excellent for market garden andhighly recommendedVery attractive varietyHigh yielding CherryFrom transplant: 60 daysYield: 12‐15 tons per hectare in goodorganic conditions.
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Tommy ToesThe plants produce bright red fruits ontrusses of 6‐10 fruits each, excellent richflavor. Much appreciated by children as“garden candy”.High yielding CherryResistant to early and late blightIndeterminate growthFrom transplant: 60 daysYield: 15‐ 18 tons per hectare
CHERRY‐ Red Tomato
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Broad Ripple
This variety produces hundreds of tinyorange‐ yellow cherry tomatoes.A heavy producer of unusual cherrytomatoes.Highly recommendedIndeterminate growth susceptible tosplitting.From transplant: 60 daysYield: 10‐12 tons per hectare
CHERRY‐ Yellow Tomato
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Washington Cherry
The vigorous vinesproduce an abundance ofbig cherry tomatoes.Their flesh is dense andgreat flavor. They keepwell. A well knowbranded variety.Excellent for marketgarden and highlyrecommended.From transplant 60 days.25‐30 gr fruitsYield: 10‐12 tons perhectare
CHERRY‐ Red Tomato
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Red Pear
Yellow Pear
The plants tend to sprawl all over theplace and are loaded with largeclusters of red pear shaped fruits.Excellent for market garden, highlyproductive.Much appreciated by children as“garden candy”Indeterminate growth.From transplant : 60 days.
The plants are loaded with hundredsof small 2‐4 cm long yellow pear ‐shaped fruits . They are delightfullysweet, very much appreciated bychildren as “garden candy”.Excellent for market garden, highlyproductive.Indeterminate growth.From transplant 70 days.
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Annadana Organic OP Tomatoes Varieties
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Annadana Capsicum Varieties
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GoldieThe 8‐ 12 cm long bell peppermay weigh up to 120 g. Theymature from yellow toorange to bright red. Theplants are 50 cm tall. It is abeautiful variety, compactand productive. Excellent formarket garden.From transplant 50‐60 daysYield: 22‐30 tons per hectarein good organic condition.
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Prima Bella
The large blocky 3 to 4lobed fruits are green,turning red when mature.The are thick‐ walled andsweet. Resistant to tobaccomosaic virus.
100 to 150 gr fruits
From transplant 70 days
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King of NorthThe large blocky 3 to 4 lobedfruits are 15 cm long. They aregreen, turning bright redwhen fully mature. They arethick‐ walled, crisp, sweet andmild. Resistant to tobaccomosaic virus.
100 to 120 gr fruits.
60 days.
18 tons per hectare
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The 4 lobed fruits are 9 cm long by 9cm wide. They have a mild sweetflavor and are thick walled and meaty.They ripen from green to dark purpleand to deep red when fully mature.
Short, bushy, 45 cm tall plants.Resistant to mosaic virus.
70 days. Yield: 22‐25 tons per hectare
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Red RuffledThe fruits are oval withridges, They turn greed todark red. The flesh is thickand juicy.
The compact plants produceearly and abundantly
From transplant 80 days.
22 tons per hectare
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Italian SweetThe 15cm long fruits turn red whenfully mature. The flesh is not verythick. The flavor is sweet anddelicious. The variety is resistant totobacco mosaic virus.Excellent for market garden.From transplant 50‐60 daysYield: 30‐35 tons per hectare in goodorganic condition.
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The tapering wax fruits are 12‐15cmlong. They start out pale green,ripening to yellow and then red. Theflesh is sweet and mild. Excellent formarket garden.Compact and a heavy producer, upto 30 fruits per plant.From transplant 50‐60 daysYield: 20 ‐25 tons per hectare in goodorganic condition.
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Conquistador
The 16cm long fruits have athick flesh and are very tasty.They can be harvested whengreen or red, at full maturity.The plants are 60‐80 cm tall.
Very productive variety.
From transplant 60‐ 65 days10 tons per hectare
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Yellow Banana Giant
The wax type fruits are 15 cm long. They ripen from bright yellow to red. The flesh is thick, sweet and juicy.
Excellent for market garden.
Compact heavy producer plant.
From transplant 70 days.
13 tons per hectare
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Miniature ChocolateIt is a miniature bell pepper.The 2‐3 lobed fruits are 5cmlong. They are greenturning brown when fullyripe. The flesh is thick andvery sweet.An excellent variety, hardy,delicious and unusual. Theplants are 40cm tall andmay bear up to 60 fruits.From transplant 60‐65 days.Yield: 24‐28 tons per hectarein good organic condition.
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Miniature Red BellIt is a miniature bell pepper. The 2‐3 lobedfruits are 5cm long. They are green turning redwhen fully ripe. The flesh is thick and verysweet. The plants are 40 cm tall and may bearup to 60 fruits.An excellent variety, hardy and productive.From transplant 55‐60 days.Yield: 22‐ 24 tons per hectare in good organicconditions.
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Perfection
The smooth heartshaped fruits are7‐8 cm in length.They ripen fromgreen to brightred. The flesh isvery thick, juicyand mild.
Resistant tomosaic virus.
From transplant :70 days.
24 tons per hectare
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Cayenne
The 10‐15cm long, slim,tapering fruits turn redwhen ripe. The plant mayreach 1 meter. This varietyis used to make crushedred pepper flakes andground pepper.A well known brandedvariety.
From Transplant: 55‐60days.
Very hot Chili
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Annadana Capsicum OP varieties
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OP varieties of Pumpkin and Zucchini
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One of our favorite.The fruits are heart shaped.Their rind is brilliant red‐orange. The flesh is verysmooth, fine textured andorange. The flavor is deliciousand the vitamin C content isvery high. It is a good keeper.This variety is frequently usedfor baby food. Excellent formarket garden.From direct sowing: 45 to 50days.3 to 8 kg per fruits2 to 4 fruits per plants
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More Gold
The fruits are slightlyflattened in the shape of adrum. They are very uniformin size with a very small seedcavity. Their color is brightorange with indistinct salmonstripes. The flesh is smoothorange and highly flavored.The fruit in full maturity hashigh quality but theimmature fruits may be eaten.This variety keeps good for100 days.From direct sowing 45‐50days2 to 3 kg per fruits.2 to 4 fruits per plants.
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Marina di Chiogia
A magnificent variety. Thevigorous vines produce largeturban shaped fruits that aredark‐green or green‐ bronze withnumerous ribs formed by deepgrooves. They weigh around 5 kg.The rich, sweet flesh is a deepyellow‐orange, of good quality,delicious when baked or in pies.3 to 5 kg per fruits2 to 3 fruits per plantsFrom direct sowing 55 to 60 days.
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Black Forest
It is an early maturing type.The medium‐dry, dark‐orangeflesh is rich and sweet. Thegreen, flattened, round fruitsare 12‐16cm in diameter. Thisvariety is an excellent keeper.
1 to 2 kg per fruits
4 to 5 fruits per vine.
From direct sowing: 50 days.
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Tromba d’AlbengaOne of our favorite. Thefruits, can grow up to 1 meterlong and may be harvestedanytime, from just 10cmthrough their full size. Theyturn from light yellow‐greento tan when fully ripe. Theflesh is bright orange, richand is very sweet. The fruitscan be steamed, grilled orsliced raw.Excellent for market gardenand highly recommended.Early maturing2 to 5 kg per fruits4 to 6 fruits per plantsFrom direct sowing 45‐50days.
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Long Nice
The very fine flavored fruitscan attain 1 meter inlength! Their weight rangesfrom 2 to 10 kg and theirdiameter from 10 to 18 cm.The skin is pale green andochre at maturity. Theorange flesh is firm, slightlymusky and slightly sweet.Excellent for marketgarden and highlyrecommendedCan be eaten and harvestedat any stage2 to 8 kg per fruits4 to 6 plants per vine
From direct sowing 40‐50days
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Oblong fruit. The rindis light green with darkgreen stripes. The fleshis pinkish‐red, verysweet and rich.20 to 40 cm long5‐10 up to 15 kg perfruit2 to 3 fruit per vineFrom direct sowing :90 days.
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Striato Pugliese
The fruits arepretty uniform insize, are 15‐18 cmin length. Theyhave a dark greenskin stripped witha lighter green.Bush variety
Excellent formarket garden.
100 to 200 gr fruits
6 to 8 fruits perplans
Zucchini
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Alberano di Sarzano
An excellent varietyfor market garden.
Good producer of 30cm long light greenzucchini, 5 cm indiameter.
Uniform fruits
100 to 200 gr fruits
6 to 8 fruits per plants
40 days from directsowing.
Zucchini
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Caserta
Zucchini
The fruits have alight green skinstriped with adarker green.
This variety is veryproductive and of abush type.
6 to 10 fruits perplant
150 to 200 gr perfruits
From direct sowing40 days.
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Golden BushA very productive varietywith bright yellow fruits of10 to 20 cm long.
Large productive plant.The fruit skin is delicateand should be handle withcare.
Excellent for market
4 to 8 fruits per plants
80‐120 gram per fruit
Zucchini
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OP varieties of Brinjal
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Indonesian Pink Blush
The fruits are oblong and 15cm long. The skin is pink andviolet. The plant can reach 1meter high.
Attractive variety
100 to 150 gram fruits
Up to 8 fruits per plant
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Chinese
This variety produce 20 cm long black‐ purplefruits. The flesh is white, tender and of nice flavor.
A classic market variety.
80 to 120 gram fruits
4 to 6 fruits per plants
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This fine variety is very early.The ovals to round fruits arelight green. The flesh is white,tender and mild‐flavored. Theskin is very thin and does notneed to be peeled. Good forcooking as the fruit bear fewseeds.The plant grows 60‐90cms talland is pretty productive.100 to 120 gram fruit.3 to 6 fruits per plant.From transplant: 60‐65 days.
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This variety is veryproductive of blackpurple fruits born incluster of 4, each prettyfruit of 10 to 15 cm longare only 3 cm indiameter.From transplant 60 days.
Purple Cluster
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Delicious WhiteThe stalks grow 2 meterstall and produce 2 cobs of20 cm long. The kernelsare white and the rowscompact. A very elegantvariety.From direct sowing 90days.
Corn
Delicious RedBeautiful deep red kernels.The stalks grow 1.8 meterstall and produce 2 cobs of20 cm long. A veryproductive and unusualvariety, attract customersattention, excellent formarket garden andspectacular.From direct sowing 90 days.
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Rainbow SweetOne of our four very favorite varieties of sweet corn. The fresh kernels are white andyellow. The cobs are 30cm long and are totally multicolored when fully mature. The stemof this plant can reach 3 meters and is sometimes colored red. A spectacular variety.From direct sowing 85‐100 days.
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For further enquiry, contact us at :Annadana Seed Bank
Auroville Botanical Garden
Auroville, Villupuram dist, Tamilnadu – 605101.
E‐mail : [email protected]
Phone : 0413 262 2667
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