Kufri Jawahar is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, light cream to white skin and white flesh. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with excellent storage properties and moderate resistance to diseases like late blight and early blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval
- Skin: Smooth with a light cream to white color
- Flesh: White, suitable for various culinary uses
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in size for uniform cooking and processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Compact
- Stem: Green
- Leaflet: Ovate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, round with medium-deep 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: Average
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Slow rate of degeneration and suitable for inter-cropping
