Kufri Safed is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, white or 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 round.
- Skin: Smooth with a white or 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
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: White-cream, round with purple and medium-deep eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: White-green
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Late
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Cooks on prolonged boiling, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
