Product Description
- Yield potential of up to 2.5 tonnes per hectare
- Speckled
- Reaches physiological maturity in less than 70 to 75 days at 1,100 to 1,200 metres above sea level
- Licenced and commercially available in Malawi, Zimbabwe
Product Characteristics
- Grain size: Medium
- Grain color: Red speckle
- Days to flowering: 29 – 32 days
- Flower color: Purple
- Days to pod shattering: 15 days
- Average Plant Height: 50 cm
- Pod clearance: 10cm
- Growth habit: Determinate and upright
- Harvestability: Suitable for both machine and hand harvesting
- Seeding rate: 110kg/ha (Plant population of 400,000 plants/hectare)
- Suitable for low and medium rainfall areas, or for late planting in high rainfall areas