Kufri Sindhuri is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with red skin and white flesh. It offers excellent culinary qualities for boiling, baking, and frying, with good storage properties and moderate resistance to late blight, making it suitable for table use and fresh market applications.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Round to oval.
- Skin: Red with a smooth texture.
- 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, ideal for different cooking methods such as boiling, baking, and frying.
Morphological features
- Canopy: Open
- Stem: Green with purple pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Lanceolate
- Flower: Red-violet
- Tuber: Red, round with deep eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: here
- Average yield potential: Late
- Storability: 300-350 q/ha
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: moderately resistant
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: susceptible to mosaic but tolerant to leaf roll
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Suitable for low input eco-system
