Meet several growers who are enthusiastic about the new Syngenta Flowers Marigold varieties. They share their experiences as participants in a national wide trial program for introduction of the new varieties: Indi Yellow, Indi Orange and Indi Tall Yellow.
Grower: Suryakant Laxman Shirke
District: Satara, Maharashtra, India
"This is a very good demonstration plot. The Indi Yellow has a large size flower shape and has attractive shiny color. For the coming season I will grow this hybrid in my field and I will try to harvest a higher yield then before."
Syngenta Field Assistant: Vaibhav Bhandari
District Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
"I have setup a demonstration of Indi Orange in my territory Kolhapur. Let me tell you about the attractive features of Indi Orange. It has a medium shape flower, it is very compact. It has a uniform color. The flower is good for long distance transportation. There is no calyx busting. The small calyx makes this variety good for making garland. The plants offer more flowers because it has more branches. This hybrid variety has a tolerance for flower & leaf diseases and provides a high yield capacity per acre."
Grower: Anna Sukhod
Dist: Kolhapur
Indi Yellow has a good flower color and offers compactness. This will lead to more demand in market. Indi Yellow provides a good tolerance for flower and leaf diseases. This will definitively create more demand from your flower vendors. I urge all farmers to join me in growing this hybrid in the coming season and harvest more yield with high quality flower.
Syngenta Field Assistant: Avdhut Patil
District: Sangli, Maharashtra, India
"Good day! We have done a trial with Syngenta of the Marigold hybrid Indi Tall Yellow in our territory. I can share with you the following features of this hybrid. Indi Tall Yellow has a good compact flower with an attractive yellow color. The plants have more branches and therefore more flower per plant. Due to its superior flower weight, we harvest more yield with this hybrid. The trial farmer is very happy with this new variety and he is telling all his neighboring farmer to grow this variety for the coming season."
Indi Orange is a number 1 hybrid, with medium flower size and good flower compactness. I tell my friends to grow this hybrid in the coming season. Hopefully we can get a good price for this variety.
Farmer: Avdhut Sawant
District: Satara, Maharashtra, India
Indi Orange hybrid is good in terms of flower color, shape and compactness
Farmer: Shivam Nikhade
District: Vardhá, Maharashtra, India
Past year I have grown the variety Kolkata Orange. But now I have seen that Indi Orange is better in terms of flower size and yield. For coming season I am switching to Indi Orange.
Introduction video
Watch the video report of introduction of the new Syngenta Flowers Marigold varieties: Live from the Krushik Agri Expo, February 15th 2021.