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| Year of Release | 1987 | ||
| Pedigree | A selection from the germplasm (PCT-8) collected from Assam | ||
| Areas of Adoption | Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh | ||
| Crop Duration | 200 days | ||
| Yield | 17.4 tonnes of fresh rhizomes/ha | ||
| Potential yield | 43.5 tonnes of fresh rhizomes/ha | ||
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| Curcumin | 4.0% | ||
| Oleoresin | 13.5% | ||
| Essential oil | 7.0% | ||
| Morphological Characters | |||
| Colour of aerial shoot | Green | ||
| Plant height (cm) | 69.4 | ||
| Leaf length/breadth (cm) | 66.4/17.4 | ||
| No. of tillers per clump | 2.6 | ||
| No. of leaves per clump | 16.4 | ||
| Yield of rhizomes/clump(g) | 460 | ||
| No. of mother rhizomes | 3.0 | ||
| Wt. of mother rhizomes (g) | 34 | ||
| No. of primaries | 21 | ||
| Wt. of primaries (g) | 232 | ||
| No. of secondaries (g) | 28.2 | ||
| Wt. of secondaries (g) | 201 | ||
| Colour of rhizomes | Deep orange | ||
| Dry recovery % | 26* | ||
| Reaction to major pests and diseases | |||
| Rhizome rot (Pythium graminicolum) | Field tolerant | ||
| Leaf blotch (Taphrina maculans) | Field tolerant | ||
| Leaf spot (Colletotrichum capsici) | Field tolerant | ||
| Rhizome scale (Aspodiella hartii) | Field tolerant | ||
| Shoot borer (Conogethes punctiferalis) | Field tolerant | ||
| Special characteristics | |||
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A high yielding, short duration turmeric with deep orange coloured rhizome. |
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| Specific recommendations | |||
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Recommended package of practices of IISR/SAUs are to be followed. * Provisional |
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