Kufri Kumar is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, light cream to white skin and white flesh. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with excellent storage properties and moderate resistance to diseases like late blight and early blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to oblong
- Skin: Smooth with a light cream to white color
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in size for uniform cooking and 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: Red-violet
- Tuber: Yellow, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian hills
- Maturity: Late
- Average yield potential: 150-200 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: resistant
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
