Pusa Mridula
An IARI European-type small round radish with bright red skin and white, crisp, mild flesh, ready very fast in about 25–30 days — a salad radish for the cool plains winter and the hills.
Quick facts
- Crop
- Radish (Mooli)
- Type
- Open-pollinated
- Season
- Rabi
- Maturity period
- 25–30 days
- Expected yield
- 12–18 t/ha
- Suitable soil
- Loam
- Release
- Released by ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi
About this variety
Pusa Mridula is a small, round, European-type table radish from ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, with bright red skin and white, crisp, mild flesh. It is ready extremely fast — about 25–30 days — which makes it a useful quick catch crop and a salad radish for the cool plains winter and the hills. It needs cool weather; in warm conditions it bolts. Being open-pollinated, its seed can be saved.
Key characteristics
Yield & maturity
Maturity period
25–30 days
Expected yield
12–18 t/ha
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
- Extremely fast — a root in about 25–30 days
- Bright red skin, crisp mild flesh — a salad radish
- Useful quick catch crop between main crops; open-pollinated
Things to consider
- A temperate type — bolts in warm weather, so grow only in genuine cold
- Small roots and lower total yield than the long Asiatic types
Suitable regions
States this variety is recommended for — check locally, since a state can have more than one recommended zone.
- Delhi
- Punjab
- Uttarakhand
- Himachal Pradesh