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Business skills training guide for potato farmer organizations and cooperatives: A guide for business skills and enterprise development
This training guide was developed by the potato component of the Accelerated Value Chain Development
(AVCD) program with contributions from Edward Mwakio, a business skills consultant, and from county
agribusiness ...
Supporting Establishment of Potato Stakeholders’ Platform in Nigeria
Supporting Establishment of Potato Stakeholders’ Platform in Nigeria.
Outcome brief: 6 years of AVCD interventions in Kenya through the Accelerated Value Chain Development Program
The AVCD potato project supported the integration of the private and public sectors in new potato value chains in Kenya that are led by farmers societies in the potato growing counties, generating 33,977,789 USD in sales.
Per ...
Multi-location evaluation of early maturing and heat tolerant potato clones
This new initiative was different in that it had a new and innovative objective to develop potato varieties that are heat and disease tolerant and produce tubers in a much shorter growing season than is currently possible. ...
Phenotypic stability for tuber yield components, minerals, sensorial test in advanced clones from tetraploid biofortified population
The advanced clones of biofortified potatoes have been identified through Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) carrying resistance to Late Blight and Potato Virus Y, high yields, as well consumer preferred traits such ...
Baseline Study of Gansu Smallholder Farmers Growing Zinc-enriched Potatoes Pilot Project
The purpose of this Baseline Report is to: 1) provide an overview of the country and development context, the subject of the baseline study, as well as the study design; 2) document the fieldwork, data collection and ...
Total glycoalkaloids analysis in a late blight heat tolerant (LBHT) potato population
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of location on the concentration of total glycoalkaloids of thirty-one late blight resistant and heat tolerant clones grown in 3 locations and identify those ...
Evaluation of the effects of mother plant physiological age on production and field performance of apical cuttings
In this study, we evaluated the effect of physiological age of stock mother on maximal potential production of rooted apical cuttings considering nine rounds of propagation over a production cycle. The results reported ...
Technical Report - Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project
Overall data shows a poor performance of potato value chain in Assam. It was found awareness about potato seed among farmers in Assam is very low, the agronomic practices are with many flaws, post-harvest losses are quite ...