Kufri Naveen 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 to oblong
- 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 cooking and processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green with red brown pigment only at base
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, round with medium-deep eyes and yellow flesh
- Sprout: Red-purple
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North-eastern hills
- Maturity: Late
- Average yield potential: 200-250 q/ha
- Storability: Poor
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: moderately resistant (also tuber)
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture waxy, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
