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Madhya Pradesh is a non-traditional region for safflower production, therefore it is significant that over a period of nearly three decades it has developed multiple varieties of Safflower, in three categories, namely Spiny, Spineless and Semi-Spiny. JSF-1 (Shweta) was the first Safflower variety released in 1984 even before theestablishment of AICRP centre at Indore .Thereafter AICRP development work on safflower started in 1986 in Indore. This pushed the production area upward from small acreage to a splendid amount of 10,000 hectares (1988-89) in the Indore and Ujjain division. Fast forward to 2019, Nimar region farmers have now come forward for cultivation of Nonspiny Safflower varieties. After the establishment of AICRP centre m JSI-7 which is a high yielding spineless variety was released in 1990 for farmers. This was followed by the release of The JSI-73 (variety) in 1997, and quickly thereafter in 2004 came the bold seeded spineless variety JSI-97.