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KALRO DEVELOPS A WEATHER FORECAST PLATFORM FOR FARMERS IN KENYA
Posted on August 7, 2020
Weather forecast results for Mirangine ward in Olkalou, Nyandarwa county between 24/07/2020 and 28/07/2020. The new weather application by KALRO is easy to use and has high level of accuracy. Farming is mainly dependent on seasons and weather. Temperature, sunlight, and rainfall have major effects on crops. Occurrences of erratic weather are beyond […]

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CHEMICALS APPROVED BY PCPB FOR MANAGEMENT OF POTATO PEST AND DISEASES
Posted on August 7, 2020
Unmanaged potato pests and diseases results into high losses both in the field and during storage. Use of chemicals is one of the recommended ways of managing pests and diseases. Pest Control Products Board (PCPB) is the institution that regulates the importation and exportation, manufacture, distribution and use of pest control products in Kenya. Farmers […]

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VIAZI SOKO DIGITAL PLATFORM IS UNDERGOING A MAJOR UPGRADE
Posted on August 5, 2020
A smart phone: Viazi Soko App is being developed and users will be able to access its services online. VIAZI SOKO is a web-based digital platform used for collecting, processing and disseminating seed and ware potato information which was developed in 2016 by NPCK and partners. Information on seed potato varieties, prices, location, and telephone […]

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KENYA’S BID TO HOST THE 2025 WORLD POTATO CONGRESS
Posted on August 5, 2020
Participants during the recent World Potato Congress (WPC) in Cusco, Peru. NPCK and partners are bidding for a similar event to be held in Kenya in 2025 Kenya’s key potato stakeholders are gearing to bid for hosting of the 2025 World Potato Congress (WPC) in the country. The congress is a networking platform which creates […]

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WARE POTATO MARKET PRICES IN MAJOR TOWNS IN THE MONTH OF JULY
Posted on August 5, 2020
NPCK collects and updates the prevailing ware potato market prices in 5 major towns on its website twice a week. This information is useful to potato stakeholders particularly farmers and market outlets in their selling and buying decisions respectively. Below is a summary of the market prices in the month of July 2020. MONTH OF […]

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RETAIL STORE LIGHT CONDITIONS CONTRIBUTE TO POTATO GREENING
Posted on August 5, 2020
Light conditions in retail stores may contribute to potato greening, says a team of researchers at the University of Tasmania, in their recently published study on this subject. The research team says they aimed to develop a “potato tuber greening risk rating model” for retail stores based on light quality and intensity parameters. This was […]

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S.A. RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY IDEAL PLANT SPECIES FOR POTATO CROP ROTATION
Posted on August 5, 2020
An infected potato. A study by researchers in the Potato Pathology Program at the University of Pretoria’s Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute identified oat (Avena strigosa) and soybean (Glycine max) as “ideal to be included as trap crops in rotations with potatoes”. This is a first study in South Africa on alternative weed and cultivated […]

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NTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER DEPOSITS 60K SEEDS IN GLOBAL VAULT
Posted on August 5, 2020
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in depositing more than 60,000 seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a biodiversity bunker in a mountainside of an Arctic island in Norway. That mass deposit of seeds of an array of crops helped raise the number of samples stored in […]

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE TUBER NUMBERS IN A POTATO PLANT
Posted on August 5, 2020
The numbers of tubers produced by each plant is influenced by agronomy and varietal potential. A large number of tuber seeds per hectare will produce a crop of predominately small tubers, ideal for canning, salad or seed potatoes. A relatively low tuber number provides less competition per unit area and allows the crop’s energies and […]

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POTATO SCIENCE – WHY SOME POTATO FRIES BROWN AND OTHERS DON’T
Posted on August 5, 2020
If you’ve ever made any potato dish you might have had both great successes and failures with the exact same recipe. In some cases the fries just turn out perfect, in other cases they brown way too quick and burn. Chances are that your recipe is perfectly fine, but that you’re using a different type […]

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