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Cassava Varieties with High Starch Content - FarmTech - 06-13-2015 If you intent to grow cassava for starch, the following varieties are good. You can see their root and starch yield per hectare in the table below. I hope you know how to interpret the table. Let’s take the first one, TMS 90257. Root yield per ha is 43 tons and it contains 23% starch. So the starch yield per ha is 23/100 x 43 = 9.89 tons/ha. However, you have to make research to know if there are better varieties because things change everyday.