Sree Nidhi
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Pedigree: Clonal selection from germplasm
  • Yield: 35 t ha-1
  • Potential yield: 50 t ha-1
  • Maturity: 8-9 months
  • Suitable growing regions: Kerala, Odisha

  • Key traits:
    • Climber twining to right with green vine and light brownish green emerging leaves
    • Green petiole with purple end.
    • Cylindrical tubers with light pink cortex and white flesh colour without browning
    • It has optimum tuber size with very little apical portion and hence less wastage and fetches higher market price to farmers as compared to local varieties with irregular tuber shape
    • Good culinary quality. It has tubers with medium dry matter (32.0%), starch (23.2% FW) and crude protein (2.5% FW) content. It has field tolerance to anthracnose disease.