Kufri Alankar is a medium-sized, round to oval potato variety with smooth, white to light cream skin and white flesh. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with good storage properties and moderate disease resistance, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Round to oval.
- Skin: Smooth with a white to light cream color.
- Flesh: White, ideal for various culinary uses.
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier.
- Size: Medium, with consistent size for uniform processing.
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with purple pigment lightly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with medium eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Pink
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Average
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attribute: Early bulker
