Kufri Sutlej is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, light 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: Oval to long oval.
- Skin: Smooth, light red in color.
- Flesh: White, making it suitable for various culinary uses.
- Eyes: Shallow, facilitating easier peeling.
- Size: Medium to large, providing a consistent size for uniform cooking and processing.
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods such as boiling, baking, and frying.
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with purple pigment lightly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: White-green
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Average
- 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
