Tongyeong City Conducts Test Cultivation of New Sweet Potato Variety for Vegetables 'Tongchaeru'

Test Cultivation of New Sweet Potato Variety for Vegetables 'Tongchaeru'

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] Tongyeong City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 5th that they harvested the new sweet potato variety for leafy petiole vegetables, 'Tongchaeru,' at the farm of farmer Jo Myeongsik in Gwandeok-ri, Dosan-myeon, who participated in the 'Sweet Potato Field Demonstration Test' on the 29th.

The 2021 field demonstration test for the new sweet potato variety for leafy petiole vegetables is a trial to create a cultivation site by growing the test variety Tongchaeru (Mokpo No. 111) and the existing cultivated variety Shinmi.

The test variety 'Tongchaeru' is a leafy petiole vegetable sweet potato with a large yield of petioles and purple skin.

Its skin is tender and can be eaten without peeling, allowing consumption of more abundant health-functional components such as anthocyanins contained in the skin.

The petiole yield of 'Tongchaeru' is 10.3 tons per 10 ares under facility cultivation, and the vitamin C and anthocyanin content in the petioles are 1.7 times and 11.9 times higher than those of 'Shinmi,' respectively.

Farmer Jo Myeongsik, who participated in the field demonstration test, said, "After harvest, tasting it with the skin on, the skin was definitely softer than the existing varieties, the texture was good, the sweetness was more noticeable, and cultivation was also very easy."

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