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
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.
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