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%