Greater Yam (Dioscorea alata)
Sree Keerthi
- Suitable for intercropping in mature coconut garden and with banana
Sree Roopa
- Possesses excellent cooking quality
Indu
- Recommended as a pure crop and also as an intercrop of coconut in the reclaimed alluvial soils of Kuttanad.
Sree Shilpa
- First hybrid with good culinary quality.
- Maturity: 8 months.
- Dry matter: 33- 35 %
- Starch: 17-19 %
- Protein: 1.4-2 %
- Sugar: 0.8-1.2 %
Sree Karthika
- High yielding
- Excellent cooking quality.
- Maturity: 9 months.
- Starch: 21.42 %
- Protein: 2.47 %
- Sugar: 1.14 %
Sree Swathy
- It is a high yielding (30 t/ha)
- Medium conical to irregular tuber with dark brown skin
- Yellowish cortex and white flesh colour
- It has drought tolerance
- Good cooking quality
- Starch: 20.02%
- Protein:16.94% DW
- Ascorbic acid: 6.9 mg/100g DW
Sree Neelima
- High yielding (35 t/ha)
- Light purple flesh colour
- Good culinary and nutritive quality
- High anthocyanin-50 mg/ 100 g
- Protein:15.37% on dry weight basis
- High potassium: 1.14%
- Fe (70.80ppm), zinc(49.80ppm) and calcium (820 ppm) content
- It is susceptible to anthracnose disease
Sree Nidhi
- Produces medium cylindrical tubers with pinkish cortex and white flesh colour
- Average yield of 35 t/ha
- It has good culinary quality without any undesirable coloration
- very little apical portion and less wastage
- Medium dry matter: 32.0%
- Starch: 23.2%
- FW and crude protein: 2.5% FW
Sree Hima
- It is a high yielding (38 t/ha)
- Medium sized digitate fused tubers with dark brown skin, purple rind and white flesh
- Excellent cooking quality
- Starch: 20.89%
- Crude protein: 4.76%