Bhu Krishna
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Pedigree: Clonal selection of open pollinated seedling progenies of exotic source
  • Yield: 18-22 t ha-1
  • Maturity: 110-120 days
  • Suitable growing regions: Odisha

  • Key traits:
    • Semi-compact plant type with green pubescent vine having purple nodes
    • Emerging leaf bright green with purple edge
    • Leaf lobed with sparse flowering and long elliptic tuber with dark purple skin
    • Dark purple flesh containing 90 mg/100g anthocyanin
    • Highly tolerant to weevil and salt stress
    • Extractable starch of 20-21 %
    • Suitable for processing