itaparica* impresses

article by heigers campher

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Plantings during the past season once again demonstrated why this cultivar is so popular and here are some of the outstanding characteristics of Itaparica*:

• Very nice thin neck • Nice brown colour • Good firmness • Earliness (shorter growing period) • Good uniformity • Excellent disease resistance

Itaparica* can be harvested significantly earlier than most other onion varieties and can thus also be marketed earlier. The recommended time slot for planting Itaparica* is from middle February to middle March throughout northern South Africa. Many of our onion growers were extremely pleased with this variety and would like to do a larger planting next season. Not only were they impressed with Itaparica's* good yield and physical characteristics, but the time slot of planting also suits most of their farming practices well.