Kufri Himsona is a high-yielding potato variety specifically bred for the processing industry. With its smooth, light yellow to cream skin and white flesh, it offers excellent qualities for making chips and French fries, including high dry matter content, low reducing sugars, and good frying qualities. It also has moderate disease resistance and good storage properties.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to oblong
- Skin: Smooth with a light yellow to cream color
- Flesh: White, ideal for processing into chips and French fries
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium to large, consistent in size for uniform processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different processing methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with red brown pigment only at lower nodes
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: Red-viole
- Tuber: White-cream, round with shallow eyes and cream flesh
- Sprout: Pink
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: Indian hills
- Maturity: Late
- Average yield potential: 150-200 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: not tested
- Late blight: moderately resistant
- Charcoal rot: not tested
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: not tested
- Cyst nematodes: not tested
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration. High dry matter, low reducing sugars and low phenols. Suitable for chip making
