Kufri Garima is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, white 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 both table use and processing applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to oblong
- Skin: Smooth with a white to cream color
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses and processing
- 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: Compact
- Stem: Grey green
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: Light yellow, ovoid with shallow eyes and light yellow flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West-Bengal
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: field resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: not tested
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture mealy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration.
