Potato Varieties

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 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.

Vermont is a very early-maturing starch potato variety developed in the Netherlands for high early starch yields and efficient processing. It produces large, round, light yellow tubers with firm texture and a starch content of about 20%. The variety shows rapid emergence, early tuber formation, and strong foliage cover, making it ideal for early harvesting.

Lady Rosetta (LR) is the potato variety with red skin, round, uniform tuber with relatively shallow for crisp quality production, either fresh or from storage. This variety is majorly used in the potato chips manufacturing around the world.

Allure is a yellow-skinned, white-fleshed, medium-sized, waxy potato variety. It is mainly used for boiling and French fries due to its firm texture and good cooking quality. Plants are erect with white flowers but do not set berries.

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.

Markies is a chipping and crisping variety with a yellow skin and light yellow flesh colour. Tubers are big, oval long with shallow eyes, of uniform size, and deliver high yields. With a floury cooking texture and excellent dry matter content, Markies fries well and is known to absorb less oil when fried for either chips or crisps.

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.

Gala has bright yellow skin and medium yellow flesh. It also has a very long period of rest and it is commonly grown for fresh market.

Kufri Lavkar is an early maturing variety (matures in 70 days in plateau and 100 days in the plains) with round white and light creamy firm flesh tubers.

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.

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.

FC5 potato variety is known for its lower moisture content, making it ideal for snack production, particularly potato chips.

Lady Alicia is a premium crisping variety, with medium dry matter content and very low, stable sugars making it well suited to crisp production. It produces high yields of short oval tubers, with yellow skins and flesh and shallow eyes.

Aromata is versatile, resistant to AM and wart disease, and does not germinate quickly in storage. The Aromata is, therefore, suitable for the international table market, the peeled market, and seed potato cultivation.

Lady Rosetta is an middle maturing exporting variety with a good crisping quality. Produces very uniform and round tubers. Little sensitive to heat and drought. Is popular in Europe in the Mediterranean area and in the Middle East. Resistant against PCN AF and wart disease 1.

Lady Rosetta is a medium-early red-skinned potato variety with round tubers, light yellow flesh, and high dry matter content. It is widely grown for crisping and potato chip production due to its low reducing sugars and uniform tuber size.