Potato Varieties

The Pelikan potato variety is a high-yielding chip potato with flexibility in its uses, making it an excellent choice for producers who want to process it into chips, flakes, or granulate. It combines robust growth with top-quality processing attributes.

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.

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.

Euroviva is a late variety with a long vegetation time ensures starch performance at the highest level.

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 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.

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 Gerona potato is a medium-late, high-yielding baby potato variety with round-oval, yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed tubers, producing 20–40 per plant. It is valued for fresh market and peeling, has excellent washability, strong resistance to common scab, wart disease, and PCN, but is somewhat susceptible to foliage and tuber blight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

BMC is a potato variety introduced in 2017, producing round tubers with yellow skin and white flesh. It has medium eye depth and grows vigorously with dark green foliage.

Middle maturing export variety with a good crisping quality. It is a high-yielding variety, strong against scab, heath, and drought.

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.

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