Potato Varieties

The Amanda potato variety is a versatile cultivar suitable for multiple uses, including French fries, starch extraction, and dehydrated potato products. It produces tubers with light yellow flesh and combines excellent processing qualities with broad adaptability, making it valuable for both industrial and fresh market applications.

The Glorietta potato is a very early to early maturing variety developed for the premium fresh market. It is a firm-cooking type with excellent flavour and no discoloration after cooking, making it especially suitable for salads and fresh table use.

The Gerona potato is a medium-late, high-yielding baby potato variety with round-oval, yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed tubers, producing 20–40 per plant. It is valued for fresh market and peeling, has excellent washability, strong resistance to common scab, wart disease, and PCN, but is somewhat susceptible to foliage and tuber blight.

Vermont is a very early-maturing starch potato variety developed in the Netherlands for high early starch yields and efficient processing. It produces large, round, light yellow tubers with firm texture and a starch content of about 20%. The variety shows rapid emergence, early tuber formation, and strong foliage cover, making it ideal for early harvesting.

Sassy is a maincrop potato variety with oval, white-skinned tubers and attractive red-violet flowers. It is noted for its good resistance to powdery scab, blackleg, and skin spot, along with strong resistance to PCN Ro1 and partial resistance to Pa 2/3, 1.

Lady Rosetta (LR) is the potato variety with red skin, round, uniform tuber with relatively shallow for crisp quality production, either fresh or from storage. This variety is majorly used in the potato chips manufacturing around the world.

Hermes is the potato variety with yellow skin, oval, low tuber number and high dormancy. It has high dry matter and good fry colour. It is also suitable for crisp quality production, either fresh or from storage.

Lady Rosetta is a medium-early red-skinned potato variety with round tubers, light yellow flesh, and high dry matter content. It is widely grown for crisping and potato chip production due to its low reducing sugars and uniform tuber size.

Euroviva is a late variety with a long vegetation time ensures starch performance at the highest level.

Kufri Lavkar is an early maturing variety (matures in 70 days in plateau and 100 days in the plains) with round white and light creamy firm flesh tubers.

This tasty Russet Skin variety with medium maturity is the first russet-skinned variety from HZPC.

Frozen French fries are the most popular processed potato product throughout the world. India lacks a suitable potato variety for French fry production.

Lady Claire is an early to medium-early maincrop potato variety from the Netherlands, widely grown for the crisping industry. It produces round-oval, yellow-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh and high dry matter content. The variety is prized for its very low reducing sugars, which ensures excellent frying quality and consistent chip colour even after long storage.

Verdi is a medium early crisps variety. It also can be used for the production of starch and dehydrated potatoes. The quality of the crisps is excellent even after long term storage. Resistant against PCN Ro1, 4 and potato wart disease 1, late blight and blackleg.

BMC is a potato variety introduced in 2017, producing round tubers with yellow skin and white flesh. It has medium eye depth and grows vigorously with dark green foliage.

The potato variety Moa is a very early, nematode-resistant premium chip potato, particularly suited for chip production. This variety is particularly attractive for producers looking for an early-maturing potato with stable quality for chip manufacturing.

Beo is a specialist crisping variety, with high dry matters and low reducing sugars. It has early crop maturity and is suitable to quality crisp production either fresh or from long term storage. They are uniform, round tubers that produce a golden crisp when fried.

Colomba is high-yielding, easy to grow, to store, and can be the star in several kinds of tasteful dishes. The variety is also known to be grown as a low-calory variety to meet consumer needs.