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The Potato Industry in East Pakistan: Improving Seed Potato Multiplication and Storage

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  • Dalrymple, Dana G.
  • Akeley, Robert V.

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Excerpts from the report Introduction: Although the potato has been commercially cultivated for centuries in Europe and North America, it is evidently rather new to East Pakistan. One report indicates that it was first produced around 1930. Since then, production has expanded substantially and potatoes are now easily the most important vegetable crop. Present production and marketing methods will be discussed in the first part of this report. One of the major production problems faced in East Pakistan -- and other tropical areas -- is the difficulty of building up and maintaining good stock. This is, in part, traceable to the heavy year-round insect populations which spread potato viruses. A special problem in East Pakistan is related to topography: the country is almost entirely a low-lying delta and there is essentially no high land suitable for more conventional breeding and multiplication programs. One answer is to import new seed varieties each season. This process, however, takes scarce foreign exchange. A compromise method would be to import a limited amount of seed, multiply it, and then store it for distribution to farmers the following season. The latter method has been proposed for East Pakistan and will be discussed in detail in the second portion of this report.

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  • Dalrymple, Dana G. & Akeley, Robert V., 1968. "The Potato Industry in East Pakistan: Improving Seed Potato Multiplication and Storage," USDA Miscellaneous 344101, United States Department of Agriculture.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:usdami:344101
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344101
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