Potato Journal
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue: 3 and 4

Sustaining potato chipping industry from Western and Central Uttar Pradesh: Adoption of suitable varieties

  • Author:
  • S.K. Pandey1, S.V. Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Parveen Kumar2, P. Manivel1
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 119 to 127

1Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, 171 001, Himachal Pradesh, India.

2Central Potato Research Institute Campus, Modipuram, 250110, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Abstract

Experiments were carried out between 1999–2000 to 2002–2003 crop seasons in Meerut and Agra Commissionaires of Uttar Pradesh, which constitute around 30% of the total potato production in the country, to explore the possibility of increasing the availability of raw material to the processing industries located in north-western plains in and around Delhi. Six varieties/hybrids were tested over different seasons or locations for yields and processing quantities. The results showed that the produce of hybrid HT/92–621 from early Autumn crop could provide fresh potatoes for processing in November. Fresh potatoes obtained in March with processing cvs Kufri Chipsona-1 and Kufri Chipsona-2 from early spring crop also had acceptable processing qualities. Agra Commissionary appear to be the potential source of processing potatoes to feed the nearby processing industries.