Kufri Chamatkar is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, white to light cream skin and white flesh. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with excellent storage properties and moderate disease resistance, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval
- Skin: Smooth with a white to light cream color
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in size for uniform processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with purple pigment only at base
- Leaflet: Lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Sprout: White-green
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Late
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Poor
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: resistant
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: 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: Mainly medium size tubers
