Potato Varieties

Agria is a variety suitable for fresh table consumption, french fries/chips and it also crisps well. The cooking type is floury, with excellent fry qualities. Agria has big, oval long tubers, yellow skin, and deep yellow flesh colour.

This tasty Russet Skin variety with medium maturity is the first russet-skinned variety from HZPC.

Sassy is a maincrop potato variety with oval, white-skinned tubers and attractive red-violet flowers. It is noted for its good resistance to powdery scab, blackleg, and skin spot, along with strong resistance to PCN Ro1 and partial resistance to Pa 2/3, 1.

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.

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.

Austin is an early variety with excellent, off-field processing characteristics, round-oval tubers with shallow eyes ideally suited for crisping. The low reducing sugar content also makes the variety suitable for longer-term storage.

Linus is a medium-early potato variety for processing into French fries and combines an extremely high yield potential with very good processing quality.

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

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.

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.

Lady Amarilla’s unique storage qualities and early ripening make it suitable for both the crisping industry as for French fry production. This potato variety has a low level of reduced sugars and a stable underwater weight.

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

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.

Ikarus is a medium-late maturing potato variety known for its long-oval, yellow-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh. It has a high dry matter content, making it suitable for French fries and chips. The variety is high yielding, produces large, uniform tubers, and is well adapted to different soils without requiring irrigation.

The Novano potato variety is known for its high yield and suitability for processing, particularly in the production of French fries and other fried products. It has round-oval shaped tubers with smooth yellow skin and white flesh. Novano is valued for its excellent frying qualities, producing uniform, crispy fries with good texture.

Beo is a specialist crisping variety, with high dry matters and low reducing sugars. It has early crop maturity and is suitable to quality crisp production either fresh or from long term storage. They are uniform, round tubers that produce a golden crisp when fried.

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.

Hermes is the potato variety with yellow skin, oval, low tuber number and high dormancy. It has high dry matter and good fry colour. It is also suitable for crisp quality production, either fresh or from storage.