Bellary

Bellary is a regional fig type maintained by farmers around Bellary and Chitradurga in Karnataka. It resembles the Poona fig in plant and fruit, and is valued for its drought tolerance and good quality when dried — making it especially well-suited to the dried-anjeer market and to the drought-prone tracts of the Karnataka fig belt. As a farmer-maintained regional type, its detailed figures are not formally documented.

Plant typeRegional hardwood-cutting type
MaturityPerennial; bears from year 2–3
Yield potentialGood yield; good quality when dried
Disease resistanceDrought-tolerant regional type
SoilAll soils
SeasonAll seasons

Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.

• Karnataka

• Poona Fig

  The most popular Indian table fig, grown above all in the Pune–Purandar belt, with purplish-brown skin and good eating quality — though the soft fruit splits in humid weather.

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• Dinkar

  An improved variety developed from the Poona fig, an improvement over Daulatabad for yield and fruit quality and gaining commercial importance.

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• Daulatabad

  A traditional Maharashtra fig variety from the Daulatabad (Aurangabad) tract, long grown for the fresh market and the parent against which Dinkar was selected.

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• Deanna

  A table-fig variety whose fruit does not split like Poona and Conadria — a useful trait where humidity at ripening makes splitting a problem.

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• Conadria

  A fig variety grown for table use and processing, valued for its fruit quality; like Poona it can split in humid weather, so it is best suited to a dry ripening season.

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• Brown Turkey

  A widely grown international fig cultivar with brownish-purple fruit, hardy and adaptable, grown in India for the fresh market and well-suited to a range of fig tracts.

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