Kufri Giriraj is a high-yielding, disease-resistant potato variety with smooth, white to light 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 white to light 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: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with red brown pigment highly scattered throughout
- Leaflet: Ovate
- Flower: Red-viole
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with shallow eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North-Indian hills
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 200-250 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
