Kufri Red is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, distinctive red 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 to round.
- Skin: Smooth with a distinctive red 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: Open
- Stem: Green with red brown pigment lightly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: Red, round with medium-deep eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North–eastern plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Cooks on prolonged boiling, texture waxy, flavour strong, free from aftercooking discoloration
