Improved selection of seed potatoes gives thirty percent more spuds

Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 07:31 in Biology & Nature

Farmers in East Africa can increase potato yields by 30 percent by improving their selection of seed potatoes. Wageningen University PhD student Peter Gildemacher says that a substantial reduction in disease pressure is possible if they only use seed potatoes from healthy parent plants.

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