KẾT QUẢ BƯỚC ĐẦU ĐÁNH GIÁ MỘT SỐ MẪU GIỐNG KHOAI MÔN CÓ TRIỂN VỌNG TẠI ĐÀ BẮC, HÒA BÌNH

In Vietnam, taro (Colocasia esculenta var. esculenta (L.) Schott) is just used as food as well as vegetables. It is considered as a traditional crop and plays a significant role in livelihood of the farmers in many ecological regions, and Dabac district of Hoabinh is one of them. With objectives of selection and introduction of new potential taro varieties for taro production in Dabac, which have high yield, good cooking quality and pest - disease tolerance. The twenty taro accessions selected from National taro collection were evaluated on agro - morphological traits, yield and pest - disease tolerance in Muongchieng commune, Dabac district of Hoabinh in 2011. The research results showed, there is the diversity in agro - morphological traits between 20 studied accessions. The eight promising accessions with higher yield of corms, good eating quality and good to lerance to pests and disease and yields ranged from 21,7 to 24,7 tons/ha.