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New hybrid pumpkin now favourite in Sri Lanka

A new hybrid pumpkin developed by East-West Seed is becoming a favourite of Sri Lankan farmers. The new hybrid is the Rajah F1, which produces fruits with blotched dark green skin when not fully mature but which turns brown when fully mature. Average size is 3 to 5 kilos per fruit. Farmers claim that the new hybrid is high-yielding and has an excellent quality. They have also observed it to be resistant to squash leaf curl virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus and papaya ring spot virus.

According to newsbits.mb.com.ph, the Rajah is a welcome replacement for the Suprema, the first pumpkin hybrid produced by East-West (which was renamed Arjuna in Sri Lanka). For more than 30 years, the Suprema was the No. 1 choice of farmers in the Philippines and other countries. After all those long years, however, it has become susceptible to viruses.
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