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- 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.
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