Kufri Arun is an early maturing, high-yielding potato variety with smooth, white to light cream skin and white flesh. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with excellent storage properties and moderate disease resistance, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to round
- Skin: Smooth with a white to light cream color
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in 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
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: White-cream, oblong with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 350-400 q/ha
- Storability: Average to good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Tolerant to hopper burn and frost, good for growing in spring season
