The company conducted large-scale trials of the variety in 2019-20 season in the South and Madhya Pradesh
Shriram Bioseed Genetics, a hybrid seed from the DCM Shriram Limited stable, has launched a ‘long-shelf life and high-yielding’ hybrid tomato variety Bioseed Flexi Harvest 4 here.
Almost close to 250 progressive farmers, nursery growers & leading distributors from Kaddapa, Chitoor, Rangareddy, Anantpur, Kolar, Bangalore and Chickbalapore joined the virtual launch of ‘Bioseed flexi Harvest 4’.
The company conducted large-scale trials of the variety in 2019-20 season in the South and in Madhya Pradesh, a company statement said.
‘Bioseed flexi Harvest 4’ is developed by Shriram Bioseed Genetics (A Division of DCM Shriram Limited) based in Hyderabad. Shriram Bioseed Genetics has already launched excellent products in the square round segment (Bioseed 2182, 2071, VEER) in Tomato in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat last year where the product is in high demand.
Bioseed research is actively working with new technology especially in crops like Tomato, Okra and Hot Pepper where farmers will benefit with high yield & now newly launched product in tomato like Bioseed flexi Harvest 4’ will definitely help in increasing the income for Tomato growers. The product characteristics include Flexible Harvesting, Long Shelf life, high yield, excellent rejuvenation, excellent fruit colour, and uniformity & size retention capacity-which are imperative requirements for Tomato growers.
During the year 2019-20, Shriram Bioseed Genetics conducted large scale trials of Tomato BIOSEED FLEXI HARVEST 4 in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Madhya Pradesh state which has high potential for Tomato Cultivation Farmers who used the product during the trials also shared their success stories with BIOSEED FLEXI HARVEST 4 with the participants during the launch event. A few farmers who have used BIOSEED FLEXI HARVEST 4 for trial in their fields compared the output Vis a Vis that generated by another leading hybrid seed. They expressed that they received better yield and price in the market from the product by Shriram Bioseed Genetics’ BIOSEED FLEXI HARVEST 4. They claimed that this was due to Flexible Harvesting, Long Shelf life high yield, high disease tolerance, fruit firmness and uniform tomato size till 12-15 harvesting BIOSEED FLEXI HARVEST 4 has more fruit weight and produces more number of fruits per plant which automatically gives higher yield and more profit to farmers.
