The Avenir potato is a high-yielding variety with excellent starch content, making it suitable for both culinary and industrial uses
- High-yielding variety with excellent tuber production
- High starch content, suitable for processing
- Low discoloration in raw and cooked form
- Dual-purpose: Mealy table potato & drying potato for starch production
- Robust and heat-tolerant, adaptable to various climates
Tuber Characteristics
- Cooking Type: Mealy
- Maturity: Medium-late
- Tuber Shape: Long-oval
- Flesh Color: Light yellow to yellow
- Skin: Yellow, smooth to netted
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Raw Discoloration: Low
Disease Susceptibility
- Y-virus: Very low
- Leaf roll virus: Medium
- Rhizoctonia: Low
- Tuber blight (Phytophthora infestans): Low
- Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) – Foliage: Medium
- Common scab: Low
