Potatoes in Canada last spoke to Vanessa Currie, a potato breeding technician at the University of Guelph, at the 2021 Canadian Potato Summit, where she shared exciting new varieties being...
Read moreFor a successful potato industry that will bring about impact at household and national levels, a continuous production and storage of potatoes is indispensable. This will enable availability of potatoes...
Read moreThe genetic potential of high yielding varieties can be achieved only if quality seed is used together with good agricultural practices (GAP). Research in several SSA countries has developed agronomic...
Read morePotato pink eye is a disorder that often starts with pink, water-soaked areas around the eyes of the tuber — that’s why it’s called “pink eye,” writes Carrie Huffman Wohleb in this...
Read moreCritical shortage of quality seed of productive and adaptive varieties is probably the major constraint to potato production in SSA countries. The yield and quality of potato produced is dependent...
Read moreThe National Potato Council and KFC in Kenya have identified the Markies potato variety as a suitable variety that farmers in that country can now grow to supply the US-based fast-food chain...
Read moreIn each Sub-Saharan African (SSA) country, there is a potato research and development that involves many actors (partners) ranging from input suppliers to consumers. There is, however, a disconnect between...
Read moreIn order to be less dependent on Scottish seed potatoes, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is asking the Irish government to give a boost to the development of its own...
Read morePartnerships to Strengthening the Potato Value Chain At the African Potato Association conference in Addis Ababa in 2016, workshops were held to discuss how the WPC could help strengthen the...
Read moreA life in farming seemed to be preordained for Mike Telford. “I grew up in Utah in Bountiful. My father was what they called a truck farmer, and they grew...
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