One of the local companies that trades both table potatoes and ready meals is Country Crest in Lusk. The third generation is already active in this.

Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in.

The content of this blog is the Potato World vision column by Hilko Bos, published in PotatoWorld magazine 2022/01.

The content of this blog is the foreword from the Editor in Chief, published in PotatoWorld magazine 2022/01.

Seed tubers are planted in small holes or shallow planting furrows made by the planting machine. Usually the depth of planting is such that the top.

When planting a potato field, a certain surface area of skin of tuber is planted on which there are a number of eyes. These eyes produce none, one or.

Seed potatoes, whole and cut, are often dusted or sprayed with a pencycuron containing fungicide to protect against black scurf caused by .

In subsistence farming and in a developing seed system where there is no official certification scheme operating, growers use the small tubers of the.

The provenance of seed for potato planting is situation-dependent. In temperate climates with cool summers, certified seed is usually grown in the.

In rapid multiplication schemes, plants are multiplied by in vitro or in vivo (not in closed tubes or containers) techniques. Cuttings are rooted to.