Performance of SS Sakato Shallot Variety in Three Locations in Indonesia Maulidia Nabilah (a*), Heri Harti (a), M.A. Chozin (b), Kusuma Darma (a), Endang Gunawan (a), Awang Maharijaya (a)
a) Center for Tropical Horticulture Studies,
Jalan Raya Pajajaran, Bogor 16141, Indonesia
*maulidianabilah25[at]gmail.com
b) Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University
Jalan Meranti, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Abstract
Shallot is an essential vegetable crop in Indonesia. Development of new variety of shallot is necessary to increase the productivity of shallot in Indonesia. Availability of high yielding and disease resistant shallot varieties will ensure its sustainable production. The objective of this research is to test the performance of newly released variety namely SS Sakato in three different locations in Indonesia. This variety was developed by Center for Tropical Horticulture Studies in a participatory plant breeding scheme with farmers from 2014 to 2017. The test was conducted in Solok, Kuningan, and Bogor from September 2020 to July 2021. The result showed that SS Sakato variety grew well in all location and superior to local variety that has been used by farmer in those location. This indicates that this variety has a wide adaptation and it can be used as a National variety to increase the production of Shallot in Indonesia, as well as farmer^s income.
Keywords: Horticulture- Participatory plant breeding- Released variety- Vegetable
