Growing potatoes in a single bucket is a popular method, but using two buckets instead can make the harvesting process much easier. By using an inner bucket with a window, you can access your potatoes without having to dig out all the soil in the container to ensure you don’t miss any...
19th December 2024 Due to its advantages in efficiency, sorting quality, and cost savings, optical sorting of seed potatoes is growing in popularity... READ MORE Downs Presents the CropVision Plus – a Cutting-edge Optical Potato Sorter 16th December 2024 Downs, a pioneer in potato receptio...
Harvest in the autumn has become a routine for farmers growing potatoes in Linxia County of northwest China's Gansu Province. Luo Gang is one of the locals working for the county's largest potato co-operative – Kaiyuan Planting. He joined the program in 2016 and exchanged half ...
Despite the challenges, support for germplasm enhancement programs that strategically bridge this gap and enable the continuous influx of valuable genes from crop wild relatives through improved populations and into varieties is critical to meeting the world’s growing need for food in the face of cli...
PERFORMANCE OF GROWING JAPANESE QUAILS (COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA) FED DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PEELED COOKED SUN-DRIED SWEET POTATO (IPOMEA BATATAS) MEAL DIETS figure By MARYLIN MUTHEE Sweet potato is a storage root crop and a staple food in many parts of Kenya. Kenyans urged to eat orange sweet...
When sampling for dry matter measurements, the whole plant was placed in the sample box, transported to the lab at a low temperature, rinsed with distilled water, and wiped clean with gauze. The length of the longest sweet potato vine was measured with a tape measure, the mesurement of ...
showing the law of initially growing and then declining and reaching their maximum at 3 or 5 dpi. CAT activity increased by 57.23% and 67.86% at 3 dpi, and SOD activity increased by 67.91% and 76. 61% at 5 dpi in Atl and Q9, respectively. It is worth noting that there were specific...
These growing conditions, coupled with the fact that the most popular cultivars have no resistance against PCN, has proven ideal for PCN population densities to build up to extremely damaging levels; over 150 viable eggs per gram of soil have been recorded at multiple sites, while infestation ...
growing conditions and use. As they grow in different environments and may be exposed to different biotic and abiotic stresses, their tolerance and stress resistance may also differ. At the genomic level, however, both potatoes and pepper possess theGGPgene family. This is a key gene for the ...
fungicides, it is important to know the effectiveness and type of activity of the active ingredients to control blight. What is their effectiveness on leaf blight, stem blight and tuber blight and do they protect the new growing point (Evenhuis et al.1996,2006b; Schepers and Van Soesbergen...