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Potato production in the tropics

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The Potato Crop

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Abstract

The cultivated potato is understood to have originated in the tropics, predominantly in the Andes of South America where it remains of great importance as both a subsistence and cash crop. Today, the potato is cultivated commercially in almost all climates of the world (Midmore and Rhoades, 1988) with the exception of the tropical rain forest (AF on the classification of Koppen) and the tropical rainy, short, dry season climate (Koppen’s MM). In the latter climate, however, potato has been grown successfully under experimental conditions. This highly adaptive nature of the potato has permitted it to take second place only to maize as the crop grown in the greatest number of countries in the world (Horton and Fano, 1985).

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