Background/ Technology Detail:
Though cassava is a climate resilient crop having the innate physiologic ability to sustain under rising atmospheric temperature, escalating fertilizer prices and its marginal availability has resulted in imbalanced plant nutrition affecting tuber yield, soil health as well as farmers' income. Potassium is designated as the 'key nutrient in cassava' owing to its significance with respect to better plant growth, enhancing tuber yield and improving tuber quality (increasing the starch content and reducing the cyanogenic glucoside (responsible for bitterness) content) of cassava tubers. Long-term fertility trials have clearly indicated that sooner or later K deficiency becomes the most limiting nutritional constraint if cassava is grown continuously without adequate K fertilization. Need for nutrient efficient genotypes which can reduce the fertilizer costs and sustain under low-input conditions.

Variety Details
Sree Pavithra
High tuber yield (35-45 t/ha), Good cooking quality, Low cyanogenic glucoside (26 ppm), High K use efficiency