Pride of India
An early cabbage variety — matures in about 70–80 days after transplanting with round, solid, medium-sized heads of roughly 1–1.5 kg.
Quick facts
- Crop
- Cabbage
- Type
- Open-pollinated
- Season
- Rabi
- Maturity period
- 70–80 days after transplanting
- Expected yield
- 200–280 q/ha
- Suitable soil
- Loam
- Release
- Not attributed to a specific ICAR/state-university breeding programme in the sources checked this phase — described as an established Indian cabbage cultivar rather than a documented institutional release
About this variety
Pride of India is an open-pollinated early cabbage, reported to mature in about 70–80 days after transplanting with round, solid, medium-large heads of about 1–1.5 kg and yields around 20–28 t/ha (200–280 q/ha) — figures that repeatedly and consistently surface across search-indexed National Horticulture Board content, though the underlying NHB PDF itself could not be directly read (binary/corrupted, the same gov-PDF pattern seen throughout this project). A directly-fetched university course slide deck instead reports a larger head, about 1.5–2.0 kg — kept here as a disagreement rather than discarded, since it's a directly-fetched source while the NHB figure is search-snippet only. This project's own Golden Acre record runs 80–90 days, longer than Pride of India's figure here, making Pride of India the earlier-maturing of the two (see considerations). Unlike Pusa Drumhead, it is not attributed to a specific ICAR or state-university breeding programme in any source checked — it reads as an established Indian cabbage cultivar/introduction rather than a documented institutional release; a description of it as a selection from Copenhagen Market could not be independently confirmed and is not added.
Key characteristics
Yield & maturity
Maturity period
70–80 days after transplanting
Expected yield
200–280 q/ha
Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.
Pest & disease considerations
Advantages & considerations
Why farmers may choose it
- Larger heads than Golden Acre at a plant type farmers already know
- Fills the harvest window between the earliest (Golden Acre) and heaviest (Pusa Drumhead) cabbages grown alongside it
- Reported tolerance to head splitting and pest attacks in one directly-fetched trade source
Things to consider
- Duration and yield are corroborated by three independent points: search-indexed National Horticulture Board content (an NHB cabbage-varieties bulletin at nhb.gov.in/bulletin_files/vegetable/cabbage/cab012.pdf) repeatedly and consistently describes Pride of India as an early growing variety with a medium-large 1–1.5 kg head, maturing in 70–80 days after transplanting, yielding 20–28 t/ha — though the PDF itself could not be directly read (binary/corrupted), so this is search-indexed corroboration, not a directly-fetched primary; a directly-fetched trade blog (tractorkarvan) independently classifies it as early-season alongside Golden Acre; and this project's own separately-authored crops.ts variety table already lists '70–80 days' for this exact variety. One trade source (India Inputs) instead calls it late-maturing at 90–100 days with 'large and flat-round' heads — not used here, given the weight of the other three.
- Head weight is a smaller, unresolved disagreement: the NHB content above (snippet-only) gives 1–1.5 kg, while a directly-fetched university course slide deck instead gives about 1.5–2.0 kg. Both are kept in the description rather than one being silently picked, since the slide deck is a legitimate directly-fetched source and the NHB figure could not be directly verified.
- States: no NHB/ICAR/university source gives an explicit state list for Pride of India — a trade roundup's West Bengal/Uttar Pradesh/Karnataka list reads as a retailer-style growing-state list rather than an agronomic recommendation, and Assam and Himachal Pradesh have a general cabbage-production presence but no source ties that specifically to this variety. States left empty rather than fabricated. This project's crops.ts has its own separately-authored entry for this variety listing only 'Uttar Pradesh' (also unsourced) — left as-is, out of scope for this seeds.ts record.
- Release/origin: no source checked attributes Pride of India to a specific breeder or institution, and the 'selection from Copenhagen Market' description could not be independently confirmed — it reads as an established cultivar rather than a documented institutional release.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pride of India an early or a main-season cabbage?
It's an early variety, maturing in about 70–80 days after transplanting per National Horticulture Board content — which, going by this project's own Golden Acre record (80–90 days), actually makes Pride of India earlier-maturing than Golden Acre, not later.
Which states is Pride of India best suited to?
No NHB, ICAR or university source gives an explicit state recommendation for this variety, so this page does not list one rather than guessing. It is grown across general cabbage-producing regions of India as an early-season type.
Sourced from: Commercial Varieties and Hybrids in Cabbage and Cauliflower — university course slide deck, Top 11 Cabbage Varieties in India — India Inputs. editorial policy.