Tanzania: Tanzanian growers look to tissue culture to boost potato production
Instead of relying on planting the cut pieces from the traditional matured plants or diseased seeds, sweet potato growers now have a solution to their low yield woes.
Tissue culture technology can produce millions of clean seeds from high yielding varieties.
These emerged during field day demonstrations for the farmers conducted by an agribusiness innovation group geared to transform potato productivity in Tanzania.
The day-long demonstrations were undertaken under a programme called Scaling Seed Technology partnership which aimed to upscale productivity of potato, one of the staple foods in the country.
"The technology behind this is the use of tissue culture technology to produce millions of clean seeds from high yield varieties," said Wilfred Mushobozi, the CEO of Crop Bioscience Solutions of Arusha.
He told scores of potato farmers drawn from various districts of Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions that the technology was appropriate for increased yields of sweet potatoes. "This is how science and innovations can transform potato value chain in Tanzania," Mr Musobozi said during the field day demonstrations at Ngaramtoni.
Read more at allafrica.com
Fuente: http://www.freshplaza.com/article/177946/Tanzanian-growers-look-to-tissue-culture-to-boost-potato-production
