The Seed Potato Gap in Uganda

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:32

Shortage in seed potato is identified as a major problem affecting quality potato production in the Kigezi sub-region. The shortfalls in supply has three dimensions (i) the limited volumes of clean seed produced, and (ii) inadequacies in the supply of the right potato varieties - to support industrial level processing of potato into crisps and quality frozen chips.