Kufri Swarna is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, yellow skin and creamy 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 to oblong.
- Skin: Smooth, yellow in color.
- Flesh: Creamy white, suitable for various culinary uses.
- Eyes: Shallow, facilitating easier peeling.
- Size: Medium to large, providing consistent size for uniform cooking and processing.
- Texture: Firm, suitable 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: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: South Indian hills
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Poor
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: resistant
- Late blight: resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: highly resistant
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, free from after-cooking discoloration
