Kufri Kundan is a high-yielding, early maturing potato variety with smooth, light yellow to 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 light yellow to cream 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: White-cream, ovoid with medium-deep eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian hills
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 150-200 q/ha
- Storability: Poor
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: resistant
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Cooks on prolonged boiling, texture floury, flavour mild, free from aftercooking discoloration
