The Famous Cilembu Sweet Potato
A new name among consumers of special food is sweet potato Cilembu cultivated species. The English calls it sweet potatos. Cilembu sweet potato is sweet in taste. It is so sweet as this one. The Sweet of it is so different from other types of sweet potatoes. Cilembu name comes from a village in Sub-district of Pamulihan of Sumedang districts.
In 1950s and 1960s consuming sweet potato for Indonesian was a habitual consumption as supplement in the evening. But when Indonesian people enjoyed the progress in the field of staple food and enjoy welfare supported by the production of oil, which was begun in mid-1970.
Indonesian children born in 1980 and 1990 was not familiar to sweet potatoes and the like (cassava and taro) for more delicious food such as bread, eggs, chicken, beef became quite available and relatively cheaper and affordable by the majority of Indonesians.
At the end of 1990 when the world began to feel lack of food, the staple food diversification was promoted. Indonesia, especially after the economic crisis in 1997, the people of Indonesia return to think of food substitution and alternative.
Sweet potato is called scientifically as Ipomoea batatas becomes a staple food in some areas of Indonesia and become an alternative food for the regions suffering famine rice in dry season.
Sweet potato contains about 60% -80% water, about 0.9% ash, 17% - 29% of starch, about 2% protein, 0.5% sugar, 2% -5% fiber and 17% -50% beta carotene.
Cilembu sweet potato has been famous of its own advantages namely high sugar content reaching 11% -13% in raw condition and reach 19% -23% when cooked. This causes the tuber Cilembu famous even it is exported to overseas. In 2001 the Minister of Agriculture released the variety Cilembu ST 1. The variety of Cilembu ST 1 yields 20 tons up to 25 tons of fresh tuber per ha
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Plants can be propagated vegetatively by stem and shoot cuttings. The generative is done in the experiment. Land preparation is formation of hilly or guludan, cutting of plant material as long as the 25-30 cm and the planting and cultivation trimming of leaves and pruning are applied as usual sweet potato farmers do.
Please cultivate it to give more food to the world. it is sweet supply the calory.
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A new name among consumers of special food is sweet potato Cilembu cultivated species. The English calls it sweet potatos. Cilembu sweet potato is sweet in taste. It is so sweet as this one. The Sweet of it is so different from other types of sweet potatoes. Cilembu name comes from a village in Sub-district of Pamulihan of Sumedang districts.
Indonesian children born in 1980 and 1990 was not familiar to sweet potatoes and the like (cassava and taro) for more delicious food such as bread, eggs, chicken, beef became quite available and relatively cheaper and affordable by the majority of Indonesians.
At the end of 1990 when the world began to feel lack of food, the staple food diversification was promoted. Indonesia, especially after the economic crisis in 1997, the people of Indonesia return to think of food substitution and alternative.
Sweet potato is called scientifically as Ipomoea batatas becomes a staple food in some areas of Indonesia and become an alternative food for the regions suffering famine rice in dry season.
Sweet potato contains about 60% -80% water, about 0.9% ash, 17% - 29% of starch, about 2% protein, 0.5% sugar, 2% -5% fiber and 17% -50% beta carotene.
Cilembu sweet potato has been famous of its own advantages namely high sugar content reaching 11% -13% in raw condition and reach 19% -23% when cooked. This causes the tuber Cilembu famous even it is exported to overseas. In 2001 the Minister of Agriculture released the variety Cilembu ST 1. The variety of Cilembu ST 1 yields 20 tons up to 25 tons of fresh tuber per ha
.
Plants can be propagated vegetatively by stem and shoot cuttings. The generative is done in the experiment. Land preparation is formation of hilly or guludan, cutting of plant material as long as the 25-30 cm and the planting and cultivation trimming of leaves and pruning are applied as usual sweet potato farmers do.
Please cultivate it to give more food to the world. it is sweet supply the calory.
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