Kufri Lalit is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, attractive red 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 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: Compact
- Stem: Green with some purple pigment only at base
- Leaflet: Ovate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: Light red, round with medium- deep eyes and yellow flesh
- Sprout: Pink
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: Eastern plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: field resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: not tested
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
