Kufri Surya is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with light yellow skin and white flesh. It offers excellent culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with good storage properties and moderate resistance to late blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval.
- Skin: Light yellow with a smooth texture.
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses.
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier.
- Size: Medium to large, providing consistent size for uniform cooking and processing.
- Texture: Firm, ideal for different cooking methods such as boiling, baking, and frying.
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with purple pigment lightly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: White-cream, Oblong with shallow eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains and plateau
- Maturity: Early
- Average yield potential: 250-300 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration, good for making French fries
- Special attributes: Heat tolerant, suitable for early planting in plains, tolerant to hopper and mite burn
