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Khatemenla, S Alam, Deepa B Phookan, Prakash Kalita, Madhumita Barooah, Madhumita C Talukdar and Ramdeen Kumar

Abstract: A study was carried out to determine the nutritional and anti-nutritional composition of 22 upland taro cultivars in North East India. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications during 2016 and 2017. The desirable characters like lowest moisture content (74.86%) and oxalate content (29.23mg/100g) in cultivar Bor-Kochu, highest starch content (46.50%) in AAU-Col-32, highest crude protein (7.18 %) in Ghoti, highest crude fibre (3.21%) in Muktakesh, highest ash (7.46%) and iron (10.73mg/100g) content in Red Garo, and lowest phytate content (71.86mg/100g) in AAU-Col-39 were recorded amongst the cultivars. Therefore these cultivars may be considered for future crop improvement programme. The taro production and consumption thus should be encouraged and popularized nationally as an additional tuber crop next potato, cassava and sweet potato. This will extend the utilization options for this underutilized tuber beyond its current use in India hence increase source of income for farmers.

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