I remember when I was getting into farming, the greatest dilemma I had was not knowing what to plant but getting the best variety of what I had decided to plant. Which in that case were cabbages.
Owe unto me, I had no one to hold my hand and found myself at the mercy of an agrovet attendant who in most cases are just salespeople who have no idea about farming.
Every farmer plants with the intention to harvest and make some money.
However, misinformation on the best variety and its respective features puts the farmer into a hole of loss and frustration.
To cut the huge story short, I planted the variety that was given to me and in 4 months with high hopes, I harvested nothing.
I lost the whole crop to black rot.
If only I had known a variety with good resistance to black rot, I wouldn’t have lost my crop.
Mine were just 5000 heads but I pitied with other farmers experiencing total crop failure either in onion, tomatoes, and others due to wrong information.
In today’s case, we take a deeper look at the best tomato varieties with their respective traits and expected yield.
The main aim is to equip farmers with enough information that can help them make informed decisions on what makes the best tomato variety.
Terminator F1
If you are looking for a vigorous, long determinate, heavy-yielding tomato variety with a deep red-colored oval fruit, then Terminator F1 is the variety for you.
Distributed by Royal Seeds; Terminator F1 has dominated the market for its early maturity nature of 75 days after transplanting, a fruit weight of 130-140 gms, and 30 tons yield per acre under good management.
Terminator F1 has a high tolerance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV), Tomato mosaic virus, and Verticillium wilt (Vd &Va)
Why we recommend Terminator F1 is because it has some resistance to Grey Leaf spots enabling it to perform exceptionally well in both rainy seasons and dry weather.
Terminator F1 has a wider market acceptability as it can stay for up to 21 days after harvesting fresh.
It comes in 5,10,25,100,250,500,1000 grams pack sizes. Buy Terminator seedlings Here
Rambo F1
Have you ever thought that maybe there is no tomato variety that can perform well in heavy rainstorms?
Then you are not alone. I was like you once until I planted Rambo F1 from Royal Seeds in the midst of heavy rainstorms.
Rambo F1 is a determinate variety with a perfect oval shape, maturity of 75 days after transplanting, and a yield potential of 30 tonnes per acre.
It has the ability to form fruits with up to 90% grade one, depending on management.
Like Terminator F1, Rambo F1 has a high tolerance to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV), Tomato mosaic virus, Verticillium wilt (Vd & Va), and grey leaf spots.
Rambo F1 comes in 5,10,25,50,100,250,500,1000 grams pack size. Buy Rambo seedlings Here
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Ansal F1
With 75 days of maturity after transplanting, Ansal F1 can yield over 30 tons per acre with 5-8 fruits per cluster, making it one of the best tomato varieties every farmer wants to plant.
It is a vigorous plant with very good foliage cover that reduces the risk of sunburn in hot weather.
Ansal F1 is resistant to tomato mosaic virus, verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt and root-knot nematodes.
It comes in 5,10 and 25-gram pack size and is a product of Seminis.
However, it’s good for the farmer to know that a good variety is not a guarantee of good profits and a high yield.
The quantity and quality of your harvest depends on the effort you put into managing your crop from seed selection, land preparation, and planting to harvesting.
We would also love to know which other variety can you as a tomato farmer recommend and why?
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