Salient features
• It is a triploid hybrid.
• Plants tall, erect branching, stout stem, thick broad leaves with acuminate tip and purple green tinge petiole.
• Conical and brown tuber having creamy rind and white flesh.
• It takes 10 months for maturity.
• Cooking quality: Fair.
• In tuber dry matter: 46.8% and total starch: 30% (highly extractable and stable).
• Ideal for cassava based industries.
• Cyanogen: 85–93 ppm.
Performance
• Its tuber yield varies from 38 to 60.5 tonne/ha depending upon agri-climate conditions and management practices.
• It is tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot and resistant to spider mite and scale insects under field condition.
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