Kufri Lalima is a high-yielding, attractive red-skinned potato variety with 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 an attractive red 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: Red purple with green pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: Red, round with medium-deep eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Average
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: moderately resistant
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: resistant to PVY
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Cooks on prolonged boiling, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after cooking discoloration
