Kufri Sadabahar is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, light yellow 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 table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber characteristics
- Shape: Oval to oblong.
- Skin: Smooth with a light yellow to cream 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 with purple pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: Uttar Pradesh and adjoining areas
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: moderately 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
- Special attributes: Early bulker
