Product Description
- Yield potential of up to 5 tonnes per hectare
- Reaches physiological maturity in 130 to 135 days at 1,100 to 1,200 metres above sea level
- Commercially available in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Product Characteristics
- 1000 gramme weight: 29 – 30 grammes
- Grain size: Medium
- Apex colour: Black/Purple
- Grain colour: White
- Amylose content: 23% (High and non-sticky)
- Milling rate: 63%
- Awning: Absent
- Panicle type: Compact
- Exertion: Good
- Average Plant Height: 120 cm
- Resistance to lodging: Very Good
- Tillering: Good
- Flag leaf angle: Erect
- Basal leaf sheath colour: Light Green
- Tolerance to leaf blast: Medium