Swarna Suruchi

Swarna Suruchi is the third named release in the Swarna series of pointed gourd varieties from the ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region (RCER), Ranchi, alongside Swarna Alaukik and Swarna Rekha. Like Swarna Alaukik, its fruit is light greenish without stripes, elongated, and soft-fleshed with soft seeds, bred with a focus on heavy yield alongside good eating and processing quality. The three Swarna releases together give growers a small family of related, ICAR-developed options suited to the same eastern growing conditions, differing mainly in stripe pattern and fine details of yield and fruit texture. As with all pointed gourd, it is propagated from vine or root cuttings, not true seed, and requires male vines interplanted with the female fruiting stock.

Plant typeVine/root cutting
MaturityFirst harvest ~3–4 months after planting
Yield potential20–25 t/ha
Disease resistanceNo special resistance widely documented
SoilLoam
SeasonAll seasons

• Seed rateVegetatively propagated — about 2,000–2,500 cuttings/ha, roughly 10% male cuttings interplanted for pollination
• SpacingPits 2–3 m apart on an overhead bower

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

• Jharkhand
• Bihar
• Odisha
• West Bengal

• Swarna Alaukik

  Released by ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Ranchi. Light greenish, unstriped, elongated fruit with soft flesh and soft seeds, suited to both table use and sweet preparations, on a heavy-bearing vine.

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• Swarna Rekha

  Also from ICAR RCER, Ranchi. Elongated green fruit with distinct light stripes, soft seeds and good shelf life, widely grown across the eastern belt from Bihar and Jharkhand to West Bengal and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

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• Rajendra Parwal-1

  A clonal selection from Dr Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar, developed for the state's eastern Gangetic plain conditions with light-green fruit and a heavy-bearing vine.

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• Rajendra Parwal-2

  A later, high-yielding clonal release from the same Bihar university, distributed to farmers as part of state high-value horticulture programmes. Small, light-green fruit (about 25–30 g each) borne heavily — 150–175 fruit per vine.

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• Faizabad Parwal-1

  Released by Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology (NDUAT), Faizabad, for Uttar Pradesh and adjoining Bihar. Attractive, round, green fruit on a well-established commercial variety across the region.

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• Faizabad Parwal-4

  Also from NDUAT, Faizabad. Light-green, spindle-shaped fruit with tapering ends, specifically recommended for bower (pole) cultivation and noted for tolerating reclaimed sodic soils better than most named varieties.

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