Potato Varieties

The Pirol potato is a medium-early variety developed by NORIKA in Germany and introduced around the year 2000. It is derived from the well-known AGRIA variety, inheriting many of its desirable traits. Pirol produces medium-sized, round-oval tubers with shallow eyes, uniform in size, and covered with smooth yellow skin.

The Glorietta potato is a very early to early maturing variety developed for the premium fresh market. It is a firm-cooking type with excellent flavour and no discoloration after cooking, making it especially suitable for salads and fresh table use.

Colomba is high-yielding, easy to grow, to store, and can be the star in several kinds of tasteful dishes. The variety is also known to be grown as a low-calory variety to meet consumer needs.

Lady Jane is a highly resistant to stress and easy to cultivate, making it an ideal choice for French fry producers. The special feature of Lady Jane is its high dry matter content and excellent color after cooking throughout the entire storage period.

Verdi is a medium early crisps variety. It also can be used for the production of starch and dehydrated potatoes. The quality of the crisps is excellent even after long term storage. Resistant against PCN Ro1, 4 and potato wart disease 1, late blight and blackleg.

Frozen French fries are the most popular processed potato product throughout the world. India lacks a suitable potato variety for French fry production.

Taurus is an early maincrop variety, suitable for crisping. In trials it demonstrated resistance to PCN Ro1, skin spot, black dot, dry rot (F. coeruleum), silver scurf and powdery scab.

Fontane is an early maincrop high-yielding processing variety for the production of French fries and flakes. The variety’s great success is due to its reliably high yield in cultivation – for both consumer and seed potato growers – and its excellent returns in the fries sector.

The potato variety Moa is a very early, nematode-resistant premium chip potato, particularly suited for chip production. This variety is particularly attractive for producers looking for an early-maturing potato with stable quality for chip manufacturing.

Avamond is a potato variety developed for use in the production of flakes and granules (i.e. dried potato products). It offers a good balance of yield and processing quality, especially in systems where nitrogen input and cost efficiency are important.

The Santana potato has a light-yellow skin colour and crème colour of flesh. It a medium early ripening variety with High Yield. It has Big long oval tubers and It is extremely competent for processing due to the colour structure it takes when cooked.

Potato Memphis is a new promising crop variety. It is characterized by good yield and drought resistance, which greatly simplifies care.

The Santana potato has a light-yellow skin colour and crème colour of flesh. It is a medium early ripening variety with High Yield.

The Kiebitz is an early-maturing chip potato known for its exceptionally stable long-term cold storage while maintaining top-quality processing characteristics.

The Belana potato is a high-quality, early to medium-maturing table potato variety, known for its smooth, light yellow skin, pale yellow flesh, and firm, waxy texture. It is ideal for boiling, steaming, and making potato salads due to its low starch content, which helps it retain its shape during cooking.

The Norman (also known as Agria Norman) potato variety has smooth yellow to light brown skin and yellow flesh, with a round to oval shape. It’s versatile for cooking, suitable for boiling, mashing, and roasting due to its good texture and mild flavor.

The Eldena potato variety is a medium-early processing type specifically bred for the production of flakes and granules. While details about its origin and release are not widely available, Eldena is recognized for its high yields and stable processing qualities under both fresh market and storage conditions.

The Amanda potato variety is a versatile cultivar suitable for multiple uses, including French fries, starch extraction, and dehydrated potato products. It produces tubers with light yellow flesh and combines excellent processing qualities with broad adaptability, making it valuable for both industrial and fresh market applications.