Kufri Bahar is an early maturing, high-yielding 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 moderate disease resistance, 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, ideal for various culinary uses
- Eyes: Shallow, making peeling easier
- Size: Medium, consistent in size for uniform processing
- Texture: Firm, suitable for different cooking methods
Morphological features
- Canopy: Semi-compact
- Stem: Green
- Leaflet: Ovate-lanceolate
- Flower: White
- Tuber: White-cream, ovoid with medium deep eyes and white flesh
- Sprout: White-green
Agronomic features
- Adaptability: North Indian plains
- Maturity: Medium
- Average yield potential: 300-350 q/ha
- Storability: Good
- Reaction to diseases/pests:
- Early blight: susceptible
- Late blight: susceptible
- Charcoal rot: susceptible
- Wart: immune
- Viruses: susceptible
- Cyst nematodes: susceptible
- Consumer and processing quality: Easy to cook, texture floury, flavour mild, free from after-cooking discoloration
- Special attributes: Early bulker. Tolerant to gemini virus and slow rate of degeneration
