Kufri Sheetman is a high-yielding, disease-resistant 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, facilitating easier peeling.
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in size for uniform cooking and processing.
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods.
Morphological features
- Canopy: Open
- Stem: Green with red brown pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: White-cream, round with medium -deep eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North-western plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: moderately resistant
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Frost tolerant
