Kufri Girdhari 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
- 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 processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Open
- Stem: Green
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Pink
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: Indian hills
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Average
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: highly resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: susceptible
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Long dormancy of tubers
