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Translation for 'taro' from English to Slovak

taro

kolokázia {f} jedlá [Colocasia esculenta]bot.T

taro {n} [kolokázia]bot.gastr.T

• taro {n} [kolokázia] = taro

• The most famous local crop is taro. Shops sell taro-flavored ice cream, taro cookies, and other taro products.
• of fish per year. Taro fish ponds were usually located close to the sea and contained surplus of fish.
• The Baining are swidden (slash-and-burn) cultivators whose main traditional crop is taro: the 1957 taro blight caused considerable disruption to Baining agriculture, resulting in the replacement of most taro crops by "singapu" or kong-kong taro.
• A survey of the pits that have previously been used to grow Swamp taro ("Cyrtosperma merkusii"), (known in Tuvalu as "Pulaka") established that the pits were either too saline or very marginal for swamp taro production, even though a more salt-tolerant species of taro ("Colocasia esculenta") is grown on Fongafale.
• Stephen Acabado argues that taro preceded wet-rice agriculture in the Ifugao terraces and that taro is indigenous to the Philippine archipelago.

• There are numerous terms for taro in the Austronesian languages, both specific and generalized.
• During her tenure, Tuia carried out scientific research into the root crop taro, established the world's largest collection of taro and managed the region's plant genebank.
• By 2000 Situm farmers had given up planting Taro ("Colocasia esculenta Schott") because of taro beetles from the genera Papuana and Eucopidocaulus.
• Culturally, some locals would refer to residents near taro fields as "inhameiros" ("taro-fielders"), the leaves of the taro figure prominently on the coat-of-arms of the municipality of Calheta and the heraldry of the civil parish of Ribeira Seca, the locality at the center of the leader of the Taro Revolt.
• Restoration plans include restoration of the fishpond and production of historically farmed crops such as taro. Nine taro patches are undergoing restoration, occupying about [...].