Identifcation of vegetables varieties for hot arid climate

The scanty and un-certain rains during monsoon, extremes of high temperature from March to October and low temperature from November to February, and all these factors together create an environment where very few vegetable crops and their genotype produce marketable yield. Varieties developed in favourable agro-climate did not perform well under abiotic stressed conditions of hot arid region, and therefore ICAR–CIAH, Bikaner has identified three varieties during 2018 for commercial cultivation under resource poor environment