Spotlight
varieties
2024-2025
Fairly new, yet very succesful!
Every year Agrico selects a number of varieties that warrant extra attention. These “spotlight varieties” are young, innovative varieties, that are currently taking the market by storm. These varieties are already highly valued by our customers, based on the initial deliveries. This year, Agrico’s spotlight varieties are Jolene, Paradiso, Napoleon, Armedi and Twister. Watch the variety videos below in which our potato experts update you on our spotlight varieties Jolene, Paradiso, Napoleon, Armedi and Twister.
Jolene (retail)
The Jolene variety is an early maincrop variety with a good skin finish and suitable for home frying. A real multipurpose variety. Therefore, this is our spotlight variety in the retail segment
- Light yellow flesh colour
- Suitable for different dishes
- Good dry matter content
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Paradiso (traditional)
Paradiso is a cross between two existing varieties. The mother variety, Rodeo, is a descendant of the variety Mondial, which originates from Spunta. The father plant, Valor, originates from the Irish variety Cara. This origin suggests that Paradiso has good yield potential. In addition, the positive traits of a long tuber shape and a clear skin are combined in this variety. Paradiso is an early maincrop with large growing tubers with an excellent yield for the traditional market.
- Large tubers
- Beautiful appearance
- Good tolerance against bruising
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Napoleon (crisps)
Napoleon is a maincrop crisping variety with a good uniformity of size and a high dry matter content. This variety is ideally suited for the chip industry and therefore our spotlight variety for this segment.
- Good crisping quality
- Suitable for the processing of flakes
- Good virus resistances
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Armedi (french fries)
Armedi is an early maincrop processing variety suitable for the French fries industry. That's why the armedi is our spotlight variety for the French fries industry.
- Good tuberisation
- Suitable for long term storage
- Multiple potato cyst nematodes resistances
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Twister (organic)
Twister is a cross between AR 01-3104 with Zafira as the father. In both breeding lines, many old AR varieties are used as the parent, such as Armundo, Arielle, Venouska and Vokal. A gene is bred in on the mother plant’s side for resistance to late blight (Phytophthora), with a similar background to the variety Carolus. The variety was selected through the part of the selection program known as the ‘BioSelect route’. In other words: predominantly on trial fields located at organic growers. Twister has therefore been introduced to the market as a variety that can also be grown organically. Do you want to know more about BioSelect? Agrico’s brand for our organically grown ware and seed potatoes please take a look at BioSelect.
- Beautiful appearance
- Good storability
- Rather firm cooking
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