Kufri Badshah is a high-yielding, disease-resistant 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 strong resistance to late blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to oblong
- 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 red-brown pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains and plateau
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Average
- Reaction to diseases/pests
- Early blight–resistant
- Late blight–resistant
- Charcoal rot – susceptible
- Wart – susceptible
- Viruses – resistant to PVX
- Cyst nematodes – susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration, colouration on exposure to light
