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Agria

Maincrop, yellow fleshed chipping variety with a good yield and suitable for long term storage.

The cooking type is floury, with excellent fry qualities. Agria has big, oval long tubers, a yellow skin and deep yellow flesh colour. The tuber numbers are rather low, the dry matter content is high.

  • Market outlet: chipping
  • Excellent frying quality
  • Multiple virus resistances
  • Multiple virus resistances

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Suggested fertiliser treatment
Nitrogen: standard advice - 10%, preferable as split application.
Potassium: standard advice + 10%.
Phosphate: standard advice.

Cultivation
It is recommended to apply a seed treatment against Rhizoctonia.
Agria is sensitive to Little Potato disorder, avoid excessive sprout growth and do not plant early into cold seedbeds.
Avoid deep planting.

Plant spacing
35/45mm: 27cm (41,000 plants/ha).
45/55mm: 29cm (38,000 plants/ha).

Herbicide sensitivity
Use of Metribuzin (Sencorex) can give some discolouration of the foliage.

Fungicides
A preventative spraying schedule against late blight is necessary.

Storage
Agria has a very long dormancy and is suitable for long term storage.

Agria characteristics

Plant and tuber

  • Maturity
    Maincrop | 5
  • Tuber shape
    Oval long
  • Flesh Colour
    Yellow | 7
  • 5 low | 9 high
    Tuber number
    Low | 5
  • 5 small | 8 large
    Tuber size
    Large | 8
  • Skin colour
    Yellow
  • Flower colour
    White
  • 4 none | 8 many
    No. of berries
    Many | 8
  • 4 slow | 8 fast
    Foliage: - initial development
    Average | 7
  • 4 slow | 8 fast
    Foliage: - final development
    Fast | 8
  • Foliage: - selectability
    Quite easy | 7
  • 4 weak | 8 firm
    Foliage: - firmness
    Quite firm | 7
  • Lightsprout colour
    Blue-violet
  • 4 irregular | 8 regular
    Uniformity of shape
    Regular | 7
  • 5 irregular | 8 regular
    Uniformity of size
    Regular | 7
  • 3 insufficient | 8 excellent
    Skin finish
    Quite good | 6

Quality characteristics

  • 6 average | 9 high
    Average yield
    High | 9
  • 300 low | 500 high
    Underwater weight
    402
  • A firm | AB rather firm | B rather floury | BC floury | C floury
    Cooking type
    Floury | BC
  • 4 short | 8 long
    Dormancy
    Long | 8
  • Resistance to harvest damage
    Sensitive | 5
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Metribuzin
    Minimum sensitive | 7,5
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Bentazon
    Quite sensitive | 6,5
  • 4 poor result | 8 good result
    Ethylene
    5% to 15% more tubers | 6
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Secondary growth
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Growth cracks
    Quite sensitive | 6,5
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Black spot
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 17% low | 26,5% high
    Dry matter content
    21,8%
  • 5 moderate | 8 excellent
    Dry matter distribution
    Average | 6,5
  • 1 very low | 11 quite high
    TGA level
    2,7
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Raw discolouration
    Minimum sensitive | 7
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Discolouration after cooking
    Minimum sensitive | 7
  • 4 unsuitable | 8 excellent
    Suitable for chipping
    Good | 7,5
  • 4 unsuitable | 8 excellent
    Suitable for crisping
    Good | 7

Disease resistances

  • Late blight foliage
    Susceptible | 5,5
  • Late blight tuber
    Minimum susceptible | 7
  • Common scab
    Very susceptible | 4,5
  • PCN Ro 1/4
    Resistant | 9
  • PCN Ro 2/3
    -
  • PCN Pa 2 Pallida
    Susceptible | 2
  • PCN Pa 3 Pallida
    Susceptible | 2
  • Powdery scab
    Very susceptible | 3
  • Fusarium
    Minimum susceptible | 6,5
  • Blackleg
    Susceptible | 5
  • Black dot
    -
  • Spraing
    Minimum susceptible | 7
  • Leafroll
    Minimum susceptible | 6
  • Virus - A
    Minimum to non susceptible | 9
  • Virus - X
    Minimum to non susceptible | 8
  • Virus - Yn
    Minimum to non susceptible | 8
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber symptoms)
    Minimum susceptible | 7
  • Wart disease F1
    Slightly susceptible | 9
  • Wart disease F6
    Quite susceptible | 6
  • Wart disease F18
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