Potato cultivars are known to vary in their response to desprouting. Due to the lack of information on desprouting behaviour of potato cv. Kufri Giriraj, a study was conducted to find out the desprouting behaviour with different sizes of seed tubers (20, 40, 60 g), under north-western hill conditions at Central Potato Research Station, Kufri, Shimla. The results revealed no difference in the sprouting pattern between non-desprouted and once or twice desprouted seed tubers. The total as well as seed size (20–80 g), number of tubers and yield were not influenced significantly with one or two desproutings. Increasing size of the seed tuber from 20 to 60 g resulted in a significant increase in the tuber number and yield.
