Potato Varieties

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Lady Claire is an early to medium-early maincrop potato variety from the Netherlands, widely grown for the crisping industry. It produces round-oval, yellow-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh and high dry matter content. The variety is prized for its very low reducing sugars, which ensures excellent frying quality and consistent chip colour even after long storage.

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.

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.

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

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.

Innovator is a medium-early Dutch potato variety bred from Shepody × RZ-84-2580. Tubers are large, long-oval with russet skin, shallow eyes, and pale yellow flesh. It has good yield, high dry matter, and excellent suitability for fries, baking, and fresh market use.

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.