Kufri Kanchan is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with tubers are medium-large, oval-oblong and red with fleet eyes. It offers good culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with excellent storage properties and strong resistance to late blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Red-purple with green pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Blue-violet
- Sprout: Pink
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North-Bengal hills and Sikkim
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 250-300 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- 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
