The Liberalization era in India has ushered a series of changes on the economic front, thereby leading to all around changes in the living styles, spending preferences, customer's preferences and eating styles which may be outcome of increased spending potential. This has led to innovations in all spheres of business practices. Hospitality industry is one such industry where innovations have led to a complete change in the offerings, all across the value chain. This industry is so important that it has also become the fancy of more international players than ever before. The changes have swept metropolitans as well as regional urban centers. The challenges brought about by this competition are important areas to study as it no more remains to be a case of simple restaurants offering a regular menu which might have continued for decades or a hotel which might be offering just a couple of segments in its room range. Instead it is now a case of combo packs in servings and highly segmented facility offerings, specific accommodation suiting the needs of business executives, old and young travelers, honeymoon couples, small families etc.

Colocasia is primarily grown for its starch riched edible corms and cormels. Leaves and petioles are also used as vegetable while the starch has industrial uses. It is grown as staples or subsistence crop throughout the tropics and subtropics. Corms and cormels are generally consumed after boiling or frying. In North East India, farmers use different parts of colocasia as pig feed. It is one of the vegetables which are most extensively consumed by the rural people. Hundreds of cultivars are available in different parts of the region. Wide variation in stature and growing habit exist among the cultivars. Therefore, an experiment was designed to study the variation and correlation in growth and yield parameters and the interrelationship between different characters of 20 selected germplasm of colocasia. The results obtained and the conclusions derived from this investigation are incorporated in this book.