The Cimega potato is a high-yielding fresh market variety developed as an improved Spunta, offering better marketable yield, disease resistances, and presentation. It is well-suited for cultivation in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Variety Characteristics
- Category: Fresh Market
- Usage: Consumption
- Maturity: Medium early
- Yield: Very high
- Foliage: Full covering with big leafs
- Tuber size: Big
- Tuber shape: Oval
- Number of tubers: 14-16
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Light yellow
- Eye depth: Very shallow
- Cooking type: AB-B
- Dry matter content: Moderate
- Dormancy period: Medium long
- Nematodes: Ro 1, 4
- Wart disease: Resistant
- Foliage blight: Medium resistance
- Tuber blight: Good resistance
- Common scab: High resistance
- Internal defects: Low
- Virus: Medium susceptible