CAMEL

Camel is a table potato variety with With cooking type AB, including dry matter content of 18.3%. Camel is a mid early variety for the fresh market. This table potato tubers are oval shaped with dark yellow flesh and a dark red skin. This dutch potato variety is available in Pakistan to be imported from the Netherlands, by Hunza Seeds Corporation.

Harvest

The variety Camel needs sufficient time after haulm killing for the mother tubers and the skin development. (Some 3-4 weeks) Harvest with care, to avoid excessive bruising.

Storage

Camel has a good dormancy. Advised is to start with skin healing and drying directly at harvest. After wound healing it is advised to avoid moisture in the storage, to prevent the development of silver scurf.

Resistance to diseases

Camel has a broad nematodes resistance, to Potato Cyst nematodes Ro1-4 and Pa 2 and 3. Normally treatments against late blight are recommended. Average against common scab.

Cultivation

This variety is rather sensitive to spraing and average for common scab and it is advised not to plant in to light soils, with seed that is out of dormancy. The foliage development is quick, but not to abundant. Camel is not sensitive to a Metribuzin treatment.