Pusa Basanti Gainda

Pusa Basanti Gainda is the yellow companion to Pusa Narangi in ICAR-IARI's African marigold releases — bright-yellow, fully double flowers on a tall, productive plant, grown for the large share of the garland and festival trade that specifically wants yellow flowers (yellow and orange marigold are often used together in garlands and decoration). It shares Pusa Narangi's agronomy: nursery-raised and transplanted, strongly responsive to pinching, and best timed so flowering lands in a festival window. Many growers plant both the orange and yellow varieties together to supply both colours from one planting.

Plant typeAfrican marigold (open-pollinated)
Maturity~125–135 days from sowing
Yield potentialHigh; large bright-yellow double flowers
Disease resistanceNo special resistance widely documented
SoilLoam
SeasonAll seasons

• Spacing45 × 30 cm

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

• Uttar Pradesh
• Punjab
• Haryana
• Delhi
• Madhya Pradesh

• Pusa Narangi Gainda

  A classic IARI African marigold with deep-orange, fully double, ruffled flowers on a tall, high-yielding plant — one of the most widely grown commercial loose-flower varieties in northern India.

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• Arka Agni

  An ICAR-IIHR French marigold with orange-red, double flowers, a compact plant and a long flowering span, valued for loose-flower and border use in the southern states.

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• Arka Bangara 2

  An ICAR-IIHR African marigold with large, golden-orange double flowers on a vigorous plant, bred as an improved high-yielding commercial loose-flower variety for the southern belt.

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• Arka Shubha

  An ICAR-IIHR African marigold notable for its very high flower-carotenoid (xanthophyll) content, making it the standout choice for the pigment-extraction market (lutein for poultry feed) as well as a good loose-flower crop.

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• French Marigold (dwarf types)

  Dwarf French marigold (Tagetes patula) open-pollinated types in red, yellow, orange and bicolour, sold widely by Indian seed companies for borders, pots, bedding and short-stem loose flowers — compact, early and very free-flowering.

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• African marigold F1 hybrids (private)

  F1 hybrid African marigolds from private seed companies (such as the Inca and Maxima types), bred for uniform, large, dense double flowers and heavy, even yields — a higher-cost seed that rewards well-managed commercial plantings aiming at a premium garland market.

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