Afra
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Afra
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Variety Overview
Afra is a medium early, floury cooking quality table potato known for its excellent culinary quality and intensive flavor. It offers a good marketable yield and is characterized by its floury cooking type.
Afra is a medium early, floury cooking quality table potato known for its excellent culinary quality and intensive flavor. It offers a good marketable yield and is characterized by its floury cooking type.
Growing Recommendations
- Site Requirements: Medium demands on soil quality; prefer soils with good and uniform water supply due to the high number of tubers.
- Planting: Density of approximately 39,000 - 42,000 plants per hectare with a seed size of 35/55 mm. Normal planting depth is recommended, with sprouting stimulation and preventive control of Rhizoctonia solani advised.
Fertilization
- Nitrogen: Local standard of approximately 160 kg/ha, including soil-supplied Nmin.
- Phosphorus: 100 kg/ha at planting, using water-soluble phosphate.
- Potassium: 250 - 300 kg/ha at medium soil supply class; ensure sufficient supply to reduce mechanical damage and bruising risks. Chloride-containing potassium fertilizers may be suggested if applicable.
- Magnesium: 80 kg/ha.
Variety Characteristics
- Maturity: Medium early.
- Tuber: Oval shape, shallow eye depth, yellow netted skin, yellow flesh color, and low raw discoloration.
- Consumption Quality: Floury cooking with excellent intensive flavor and low discoloration after cooking.
- Yield: Good marketable yield.
Resistances and Sensitivities
- Resistances: Rapid youth development, high resistance to potato wart disease (Ro 1, Ro 4), and high to medium resistance to Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) and common scab.
- Sensitivities: Low to medium sensitivity to spraing, medium sensitivity to bruising, and low sensitivity to mechanical damage.
Additional Information
Afra potatoes are produced by EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH, with contact details provided for further inquiries.
Afra potatoes are produced by EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH, with contact details provided for further inquiries.
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varieties, competence & service medium early, floury cooking quality table potato perfect floury cooking quality excellent intensive flavour good marketable yield
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Afrafloury cooking quality table potatoAfra is a medium early, floury cooking table potato with excellent culinary quality. Variety characteristics Printed on FSC certificated paper All particulars are based on official variety trials and/or our own experience. However, as potatoes are natural products we cannot undertake any liability for these details. EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH P O. Box 1380 ■ D-21303 Luneburg ■ tel.: +49 4131 748005 ■ fax: +49 4131 7480580 mail: [email protected] ■ www.europlant.biz
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