Effect of Transplanting Dates and Spacing on Yield Attributing Character, Productivity and Economics of Potato Cultivation Through True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology

Sen, Debashish; Rakshit, Amitava; Sarkar, Narayan Chandra; Ghosh, Dulal C.; Roy, S

doi:10.4081/ija.2010.35

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Under the family Solanaceae, potato is the leading most important food and cash crop in the world. It is one of the main essential crops for guaranteeing food security (Knapp, 2008), as compared with other crops, it contains relatively more calories, vitamins, and nutrients (Sen et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Response of Potato Late Blight to Potato varieties and Fungicide Spraying Frequencies at Meket, Ethiopia

Kassaw¹,

Abera

Belete

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) De Bary) is the major constraint of potato production in Ethiopia. The field experiment was done at Meket district during 2018 cropping season, to determine appropriate spraying frequency combined with different levels of resistance variety. The experiment had 15 treatments with a combination of three potato varieties (Belete, Gudene, and Jalene) and five spraying frequencies (zero, one, two, three, and four times spray). The experiment was arranged in a randomized complete block design in factorial combination with three replications. The combination of potato varieties and spraying frequencies of Ridomil applications showed statistically significant on the disease, yield, and yield component parameters. The highest disease severity (84.76%) was obtained from untreated Jalene variety. The maximum tuber yield (29.62 t ha −1) was obtained from Belete variety sprayed with two-time spraying. Whereas the lowest tuber yield (12.93 t ha −1) was recorded from untreated Jalene variety. Moreover, the highest (1774.65%) marginal rate of return was obtained from Belete variety treated with one spray. Finally, it is concluded that for moderately resistance one spray, moderately susceptible two sprays and four sprays for susceptible varieties were found better management options and get the highest costbenefit as compared with other treatment combinations.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Response of Potato Late Blight to Potato varieties and Fungicide Spraying Frequencies at Meket, Ethiopia

Kassaw¹,

Abera

Belete

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The facility was equipped with a bar (7) with spits (3) to catch the falling seed potatoes after treatment. There was also a feed system in the form of a pump, which enabled supply at a pressure up to 800 kPa (4) with an overflow valve within 0-1000 kPa (9) powered by an electric engine (5). The facility had a system generating a continuous stream of compressed air with a valve regulating pressure within 0-800 kPa (10) (marked in black) and a system feeding the working liquid (marked in red).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It ensures food security for the increasing population all over the world [2,3]. Potatoes have a higher nutritional value per plantation area than other crops [4,5]. They are essential food in developing countries, and their consumption is growing continuously [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Assessment of the Functional and Ecological Aspect of Novel Intermittent Stream Valves for Spraying Seed Potatoes

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is important to protect potatoes from insects and diseases at an early stage of their development. Pesticides are necessary to prevent loss caused by Colorado potato beetles feeding on potato leaves. Nowadays, there are attempts to reduce the use of chemical agents to the minimum necessary level. This article describes the construction of a novel valve that applies chemicals in an intermittent stream during potato treatment. Thus, it is possible to reduce the emission of chemicals to the natural environment. The article also describes the research site where the valve was tested, provides the results of laboratory investigations on different types of sprayer nozzles and their validation. Apart from that, the degree of the seed potato surface covering with the dressing was assessed in order to select the right sprayer nozzle and working pressure. The results of field tests of the seed dresser prototype with novel nozzles showed that they effectively dressed seed potatoes while saving 2 L (50%) of the chemical per hectare. Fissure sprayers achieved the highest degree of covering (up to 78%) with the first version of the valve (without auxiliary airflow). When the innovative valve (the second solution with auxiliary airstream) was applied at a distance of 50 mm from the seed potato fall path S, the highest degree of coverage with the dressing substance (up to 88%) was observed for the ejector sprayer. When the distance between the valve and the seed potato fall, path S was increased from 50 to 100 mm, the degree of surface coverage was lower for both of the valves used in the tests.

show abstract

“…• the potential of potato as a cash and food crop is greatly underutilized (Scott et al, 2000;Sen et al, 2010;Woldegiorgis et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potatoes and livelihoods in Chencha, southern Ethiopia

Tadesse

Almekinders

Schulte

et al. 2019

NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Potato is highly productive crop and can provide a cheap and nutritionally-rich staple food. Its potential as a cash generator and source of food is much under-utilized in many emerging economies. In this paper we study the impact of an intervention that introduced improved potato technologies in Chencha, Ethiopia on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. We collected information through in-depth interviews in order to explore possible pathways of impact on farmers' livelihoods; and used this information as the basis for designing a household survey. The results show changes in agronomic practices and consumption; these changes were most pronounced among wealthy farmers who participated in the intervention. Farmers used the additional income from potato in different ways: wealthier farmers improved their houses and increased their livestock, whereas poor farmers mainly invested in furniture, cooking utensils, tools and in developing small businesses like selling and buying cereals, milk and weaving products in the local markets. Some wealthy farmers, who did not participate in the project, also derived some indirect benefits from the intervention. This underscores: i) interventions that promote uniform farming technologies in themselves are not always sufficient to improve the livelihoods of poor farmers, and ii) the need to broaden the scope of interventions so as to take into account the resources available to farmers in different wealth categories, and the diversity of strategies that they employ for improving their livelihoods. Our approach allows to understand and describe the different developmental effects of a single technological intervention on the different aspects of farmers' livelihoods.

show abstract

Effect of Transplanting Dates and Spacing on Yield Attributing Character, Productivity and Economics of Potato Cultivation Through True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

The Response of Potato Late Blight to Potato varieties and Fungicide Spraying Frequencies at Meket, Ethiopia

The Response of Potato Late Blight to Potato varieties and Fungicide Spraying Frequencies at Meket, Ethiopia

An Assessment of the Functional and Ecological Aspect of Novel Intermittent Stream Valves for Spraying Seed Potatoes

Potatoes and livelihoods in Chencha, southern Ethiopia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About