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Horse Gram (Kulthi)KharifOpen-pollinatedUpdated 2 September 2026

VL Gahat-19

A hill-region release from ICAR-VPKAS, Almora — horse gram's main documented foothold in the North Zone rather than its usual South Indian heartland.

SeasonKharif
Maturity periodNot reliably documented
Expected yieldNot documented in available sources
Suitable soilPoor, marginal, well-drained hill soils

Quick facts

Crop
Horse Gram (Kulthi)
Type
Open-pollinated
Season
Kharif
Maturity period
Not reliably documented
Expected yield
Not documented in available sources
Suitable soil
Poor, marginal, well-drained hill soils
Release
Released approximately 2010 · ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, for the North Zone

About this variety

VL Gahat-19 is a horse gram ("gahat" is the crop's common hill name) variety released by ICAR's Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, for cultivation in the North Zone, at approximately 2010. It is independently named as a "popular" or "widely cultivated" variety by two unrelated agricultural-extension sources covering Odisha and West Bengal, which gives reasonable confidence in the variety's name and institute, though this research pass could not confirm a reliable duration, yield or itemised disease-resistance figure from a primary VPKAS document — a duration figure found in one source appeared garbled/ambiguous and is not repeated here. It is presented mainly as horse gram's documented representative in the North Zone and northwestern Himalayan hill belt, a genuinely different growing environment from the crop's South Indian heartland of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.

Key characteristics

    Plant typeOpen-pollinated
    MaturityNot reliably documented
    Yield potentialNot documented in available sources
    Disease resistanceReported multiple disease tolerance; not itemised in available sources
    SoilPoor, marginal, well-drained hill soils
    SeasonKharif

Yield & maturity

Maturity period

Not reliably documented

Expected yield

Not documented in available sources

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

Pest & disease considerations

Major diseases

  • Reported multiple disease tolerance; not itemised in available sources

Advantages & considerations

Things to consider

  • Duration, yield and an itemised disease-resistance list could not be confirmed from a primary VPKAS document in this research pass — only the variety's name, institute and North Zone recommendation are documented with reasonable confidence.
  • This variety serves a genuinely different growing region (northwestern Himalayan hills) from the rest of the horse gram varieties on this page, which are South Indian.

Suitable regions

The main documented horse gram variety for the North Zone and northwestern Himalayan belt, outside the crop's main South Indian growing region.

  • Uttarakhand

Sourced from: ICAR-VPKAS, Almora. editorial policy.