Artemis
A second early ware potato variety with an excellent yield and perfect for home fries.
- Excellent home frying quality
- Good tolerance against bruising and damage
- Multiple resistances
Product manager Martin Pot about Artemis
Artemis is an early maincrop consumption variety. Product Manager Martin Pot tells more about the good yield, grading and stable skin quality.
Frequently Asked Questions
For which market segment is Artemis best suited?
Artemis is a second early variety for the retail sector and the traditional market. The variety can be adapted to various culinary uses, with a rather floury cooking type and good frying quality, making it also suitable for home frying.
What characterizes the growth and development of Artemis?
Artemis is characterized by fairly rapid initial development with a moderately firm plant. The variety produces rather large, uniformly sized, long oval tubers with a fairly high tuber set and good regularity of tuber shape.
How does Artemis perform in practice?
The cooking type of Artemis is rather floury and it has good frying quality, making the variety highly versatile in culinary use. The variety shows limited susceptibility to bruising and damage, which is of benefit to post-harvest handling and storability.
What virus and disease resistances does Artemis have?
Artemis has multiple resistances and is slightly to not susceptible to the YNTN virus, slightly susceptible to leafroll and the YN virus, and also slightly susceptible to black dot disease and spraing.
Would you like to know more about the Artemis?
The best way to guarantee a good harvest and the best return on your investment is to start out with healthy, high-quality seed potatoes and expert advice. At Agrico, we are committed to and invest in knowledge and research. This has enabled us to cultivate a wide range of unique potato varieties that display effective resistance, strong variety characteristics and a high yield. Naturally, the seed potatoes we supply are fully certified.
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