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Potato Production and Management with Preference to Seed Potato Supply Chain, Certification and Actors Involve in Bangladesh

M. N. A Siddique
Senior Scientific Officer
Soil Resource Development Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh

M. R Abdullah
PhD Researcher
Dept. of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agriculture University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

M. A. Chowdury
Energy and Urban Services Program, Practical Action, Bangladesh

M. S. Huda
Bangladesh Agricultural Research institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Area coverage, production and yield of potato have increased in last few decades in Bangladesh. The average yield of potato is 18.08 t/ha. Its production can be increased up to 30-40 t/ha using high yielding varieties and improved production technology. Tuber Crop research Centre (TCRC) of BARI has so far developed 44 potato varieties. The formal seed potato produced less than 10% seeds of the total requirement. But the supply of quality seeds through formal system is remarkably increasing. The formal sector seed potato production is only 5-9% of the total requirement. The use of these poor quality seed is one of the major factors responsible for lower potato yield. Unless quality seed potato our challenge for achieving food security of the country cannot be fulfilled. In prioritizing different issues of agriculture, supply of high quality potato seed to the farmers should be essential concern. For increasing quality seed supply to the farmers, formal and informal sector need to work together with both contact grower and farmer level to produce seed potato by multiplication of foundation seeds or tissue culture seed or mini-tuber supply. The capacity and capability of both public and private sector should be strengthened for the improvement of seed potato system in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Seed Potato, Varieties, Yield, Supply chain, Constraints, Potentials

Location: Bangladesh Agriculture Development Cooperation (BADC), Tuber Crop Research Center (TCRC), Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and Department of Agriculture Extension

Start Date: 00-05-2014

End Date: 00-06-2014

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Potato

Objectives:

To supply quality potato seeds to the farmers
To provide management packages for potato production to the farmers

Methodology:

This non-independent review is compiled and prepared based on an earlier version of article which was presented at the Center for Development Innovation (CDI), Wageningen University, the Netherlands during May-June, 2014. Most of the information that is provided collected through internet, secondary source, personal communication and publications (annual reports, biennial reports, books, reading materials, newsletter etc.). The author made personal communication for information with Bangladesh Agriculture Development Cooperation (BADC), Tuber Crop Research Center (TCRC), Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh. All the sources are included in the reference section. The authors does not guarantee any specific sets standard and accuracy of information in terms of literature, time, statistics or any other content within or beyond this article.

Source of Information: J. Busin. Manage. Soci. Res. 01(01): 01-013 (2015)

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Funding Source:

1. Government

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Achievement/Findings:

Strengthening local quality potato seed production whether by formal and informal sector is very crucial to meet the demand of seed potato in Bangladesh. Other developments strategies are encouraging potato based processing enterprises, ensuring better extension services for adoption of modern technology by farmers and seed potato grower.

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