Calcuttia
A late-season, heavy-bearing variety suited to hot, dry areas, giving large, attractive, moderately juicy fruit of good flavour; ripens in the third week of June, extending the season's tail end.
Quick facts
- Crop
- Litchi
- Type
- Air-layer (clonal variety)
- Season
- All seasons
- Maturity period
- Late season, third week of June
- Expected yield
- 80–100 kg/tree/year at full bearing
- Suitable soil
- Loam
About this variety
Calcuttia is a late-season litchi variety suited to hot, dry growing tracts, ripening in the third week of June — extending the harvest well past Shahi and China's mid-season peak. It is a heavy, reliable bearer giving large, attractive, moderately juicy fruit of good flavour, and is widely considered by growers in northern India one of the best late-season table varieties available, useful both for stretching the season and for catching the better prices that often come once the main early-and-mid-season glut has passed.
Key characteristics
Yield & maturity
Maturity period
Late season, third week of June
Expected yield
80–100 kg/tree/year at full bearing
Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.
Pest & disease considerations
Major diseases
- No special resistance claimed
Advantages & considerations
Why farmers may choose it
- Extends the season well past the mid-season peak, into late June
- Heavy, reliable bearing with large, attractive fruit
- Widely regarded as a top late-season table variety
Things to consider
- Best suited to hot, dry growing tracts rather than every litchi belt
- No special disease resistance claimed
Suitable regions
States this variety is recommended for — check locally, since a state can have more than one recommended zone.
- northern India
- hot and dry tracts