{UAH} POTATO FARMING

POTATO FARMING
Land preparation

Clear the land and cultivate to a fine tooth.

Seed selection

Use certified seeds which grows fast, are disease-free, gives higher yields, gets better prices in the market. Get certified potato seeds from good suppliers. If you are using seeds from your previous harvest, select and mark healthy ones while still growing. The selected seeds should be free from cuts, disease-free, has sprouted and with the size of an egg.

Planting

Make holes 30 cm in a row with rows 75cm apart. Put one handful of manure and 10gm of either DAP or NPK and mix well with the soil. Mark shallow holes at a depth of 10cm. Plant at 30 cm apart with sprouts facing up. Put the tubers above the soil and cover lightly with

soil.

Field Management Practices.
-Weeding

-Heaping soil around the roots. This gives space for tubers to grow big and avoid greening of potatoes which reduces the quality.

Pests Control
The common pests are Bollworms, thrips, whiteflies, leafminers and any other hopping insect.
Insects eat potato stems/leaves.
The Leaf miners make lines on the leaves.
Whiteflies are small white insects which suck the juice from crops and are found below the leaves.

Use insecticides to control the pests.

Diseases Control
Bacterial wilt has no cure and can only be controlled by using certified seeds, crop rotation and use of clean farming tools. Dig out sick plants with a ball of soil, put away from all other crops to dry then burn

Blight; Controlled using fungicides.

Storage
After harvest, store the potatoes and wait for good prices at the market. Put in a bags and store in a dry and well-ventilated store. 

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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)

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