Potato AALOO Batata

Early Season Varieties                     Mid Season Varieties         Late Season  Varieties
Kufri Surya (2000)                            Kufri Pushkar (2006)          Kufri Badshah (1979)
Kufri Pukhraj (1998)                         Kufri Bahar (1980)              Kufri Sindhuri (1967)
Kufri Ashoka (1996)                         Kufri Jyoti (1968)
Kufri Chandramukhi (1968)

Late Season Potato Varieties
Kufri Badshah tubers,though large, oval, white is not suitable for processing due to its dull white flesh. It yields about 130 Qtl/Acre potatoes in about 100-110 days. kufri badshah potato tubers develop purple colour on exposure to light.

Kufri Sindhuri, a medium late variety matures in 110-120 days and yields about 120 Qtl/Acre. Light red skin color tuber of kufri sinduri has dull white flesh. Medium, smooth, round tubers of this variety has good keeping quality but not suitable for processing

early season potato varieties                                 
Kufri Surya matures in 90-100 days and yield 100-125 Qtl/Acre white tuber that too resistant to late blight. Potato variety kufri surya is suitable for early planting. This potato variety has ability to tuberise at even at higher temperature and it has very good keeping quality.       

           

Kufri Pukhraj variety of potato yields between 140-145 Qtl/Acre or 28-32 Qtl/Bigha in 70-90 days.Its tubers are large uniform, oval, white with dry matter content of 17-18 per cent

Kufri Khyati yields between 120-125 Qtl/Acre or 25-30 Qtl/Bigha     

          
Kufri Ashoka (1996)                        
Kufri Chandramukhi (1968)
Kufri Jawahar
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आलू potato early season varieties namely kufri surya,kufri pukhraj,kufri khyati,kufri ashoka,kufri jawahar,kufri chandramukhi are popular.Late season potato varieties are kufri badshah and kufri sindhuri. kufri pushkar,kufri bahar,kufri jyoti,kufri gaurav,kufri anand,kufri sadabahar,kufri anand and kufri sutlej are grown as midseason potato variety

Mid Season potato Varieties         
Kufri Pushkar (2006)          
Kufri Bahar tubers are large, round-oval with white flesh and it yields about 125 Qtl/Acre

Kufri bahar variety of potato matures in about 100-110 days.This variety is not suitable for processing.   

Kufri Jyoti is suitable for planting in spring season also.It matures in about 90-110 days and yields about 80-120 Qtl/Acre. White flesh tuber of kufri jyoti potato show variable degree of cracking.

Kufri Gaurav has high tolerance to nutrient stress. It's yield is 120-125 Qtl/Acre or 25-30 Qtl/Bigha

Kufri Anand yields between 140-150 Qtl/Acre or 28-30 Qtl/Bigha and is moderately resistant to late blight, immune to wart and tolerant to hopper burn. Potato variety kufri garima has light yellow, ovoid tubers with light yellow flesh of good keeping quality. It is a main season, high yielding potato variety

Kufri Sadabahar tubers are white, oblong with and white flesh and yield is around 120-125 Qtl/Acre or 25-30 Qtl/Bigha

Kufri Arun is a red skin oval potato with creamy-light yellow flesh.

Kufri Sutlej

 (sharing an old pic of me sharing knowledge with potato growers of Punjab)

आलू की खेती अब फायदे का सौदा है Potato farmers should follow high ridge method to avoid tuber infection आलू की किस्में potato varieties, कृषि सस्य क्रियाएं agronomy aspects,रोग नियंत्रण potato disease management और प्रसंस्करित उत्पाद potato processing आलू उत्पादन के विभिन्न पहलु हैं

POTATO varieties for PROCESSING purpose 

Kufri Frysona is one among many processing varieties which is suitable for making French fries.High dry matter, low reducing sugars and low phenols.It yields between 140-150 Qtl/Acre or 28-32 Qtl/Bigha

Kufri Chipsona-4 has higher protein, potassium and calcium content and is suitable for people with high blood pressure. It has higher dry matter yields than other existing varieties, making it suitable for preparing dehydrated products, including chips.Thus,it can be used by the food processing industry to make chips and flakes.It's yield is 120-125 Qtl/Acre or 25-30 Qtl/Bigha

Kufri Chipsona 3 yield between 120-125 Qtl/Acre or 25-30 Qtl/Bigha

Kufri Chipsona-2
Kufri Chipsona-1 (1998)
Kufri Himsona

Kufri Chipsona-1, Kufri Chipsona-2, Kufri Chipsona-3  are Mid Season POTATO varieties for PROCESSING purpose 

 
Potato varieties like Chipsona and Frysona are processing varieties, which are used by the food processing industry to make French fries and other dehydrated products like Chips and flakes. 
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potato package of practices

Use of same potato seed stock, year after year has many disadvantages, therefore, new potato seed shall be used every 3-4 years. beej wale ALU aalu BATATA alu beej POTATO seed tuber should be purchased from a reliable source. Ten days before planting potato farm yard manure should be applied @ 20 tonnes/acre  

After taking out of the cold storage, the seed potatoes obtained from the cold store, should be dried under shade. After tuber treatment store seed potato tubers in a cool place under partial shade for 8-10 days to enable 0.5 - 1.0 cm length sprouting before sowing.Turn the surface of tubers once in a day and allow buds to sprout for a week

Before planting potato, disinfect the potato seed tubers in 0.25 % Pencycuron 250 SC i.e. Monceren 250 ml in 100 litres of water by dipping for 10 minutes to control black scurf disease disease caused by fungus Rhizoctonia solani. Fungicide monceren is used as a seed tuber treatment @ 2.5ml per litre water to fill the container in which tubers are to be dipped for 10 minutes. Healthy tubers used for sowing reduces late blight also.

Monceren is a protective non - systemic fungicide therefore, spraying monceren solution on potato will not control the disease. Fertilizer should be applied as per the recommendations in soil health card or approx. 1 bag of urea, 3 bags of single super phosphate, and 1 bag of muriate of potash per acre applied at the time of planting by mixing with soil. herbicide KHARPATWAAR nashak/NADEEN nashak/KAKH naskak/NINDAVAN nashak/WEEDICIDE for AALOO Potato should be aplied in time.

Metribuzin 70 WP e.g. Sencor, Bayer; Tata Metri; Barrier, Dhanuka; Chase, Indofil; Anchor, IIL; Sricor, Crystal; Metrite, Sulphur mills @ 200 g/acre as pre-emergence is one of the widely used pre-emergence herbicide for potato - aaloo weeds.

  

Potato growers also use Paraquat Dichloride 24 % SL e.g. Grammoxone, Syngenta 

@ 500-750 ml/acre upto 5-10 % emergence of potato crop and complete germination of weeds to manage weeds such as Cyperus rotundus, Cynodon dactylon, Convolvulus sp. Portulaca sp., Tridax sp

Earthing up should be carried out in 30-40 days old potato crop with the help of double mould board plough or a ridger. Phorate 10 G e.g. Foratox 10 G, PI ind, may be applied @ 5 kg per acre at the time of earthing up to manage insect pests. Foratox 10 G may cost around Rs.300/- per 5 kg pack.

Late Bilght infection affected fields may be sprayed with pre-mix fungicide formulations such as Mandipropamid (e.g.Revus 250 SC,Syngenta)@ 250 ml or pre-mix Metalaxyl 8% + Mancozeb 64% WP (e.g.Ridomil Gold, Syngenta or Du Pont Curzate M-8 or premix Fenamidone 10% + Mancozeb 50% WG(e.g.Sectin 60 WG,Bayer) @ 700g or pre-mix Famoxadone 16.6% + Cymoxanil 22.1% SC(e.g.Equation Pro,Du Pont) @ 200 ml per acre at 10 days interval

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TISSUE CULTURE raised POTATO Plants are used for growing and aeroponic method is used in production of disease-free seed potato mini tubers

POTATO - aaloo growers.....u need to be aware about management aspects for major pests and diseases

POTATO weeds,Diseases,Insects and other pests.......always keep an eye on potato fields o ensure timely spray

Several sp. of Amaranthus(Pigweed),Chenopodium(Bathu),Avena(Wild Oat),Convolvulus(Field bind weed) grow as weed in potato fields