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- Year of release: 1987
- Pedigree: M A selection from indigenous germplasm collection of cassava
- Yield: 30-35 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 40 t ha-1
- Maturity: Early maturing, 7 months
- Suitable growing regions: Kerala (Suitable for low land cultivation as a rotation crop in a paddy based cropping system)
Key traits:
- Erect, generally non-branching, rarely top branching shy flowering variety with high leaf retention
- Reddish brown mature stem; light sepia emerging leaf; mature leaf dark green; 7-9 lobed with purple petiole
- Cylindrical, short necked, shallow bulking radially arranged tubers with brown outer skin, cream rind and white tuber flesh
- Tubers with 29-31% starch, 30-50 ppm cyanogen having good cooking quality
- Highly tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot
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