A field trail in a complete Randomized Design was conducted at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal during 2010-2011 to assess the growth, flowering, fruiting, yield and quality of tamarind of five varieties namely PKM-1, Urigam, Vantoor, Red and Sweet. The results indicated superiority of variety PKM-1 with plant height ( 569 cm), East-west canopy expansion ( cm), number of fruit retention panicle-1 (), TSS (480 Brix), total sugar ( g) with lower acidity ( mg). The variety Urigam exhibited better performance with the characters like canopy expansion in North South direction ( – cm), trunk girth (39-52 cm), number of flowers panicle-1 (), number of fruit set panicle-1 (), fruit length ( cm) and diameter ( mm), fruit weight ( g) and fruit yield tree-1 (1388 g). Varieties Urigam and PKM-1 may be introduced in West Bengal for commercial cultivation. | Assessment of tamarind Tamarindus indica L. varieties for growth flowering fruiting yield and quality
