Potato Roadmap Uganda 2021
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2021
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The national potato production was estimated at 327,300 MT from an estimated area of 111,100 Hectares (Ha). Potato production generally increased from 155,000 MT in 2005/06 to 327,000 MT in 2018 (UBOS, 2018) which could have been attributed to increased land under production. The area of an average smallholder farm is estimated to 0.97ha, while other farms have an average area of 5.74 ha. At the national level the average farm size is 1.51 ha.
Alternative staple crops for potatoes are currently cassava, sweet potato, maize and beans, and rice. Potato is becoming ever more competitive because of the relatively high gross profit. More than 2,300 agro-dealers registered in Uganda
Most of the produced basic seed (75%) is supplied by the Uganda National Seed Potato Producers Association (UNSPPA). The use of home-saved seed of low yielding varieties, the application of poor management practices, the little attention farmers pay to product quality, water restrictions, soil exhaustion and the prevalence of viruses and diseases like late blight and bacterial wilt are major production challenges. Potato processing in Uganda is still at a basic scale with only a limited range of processed products. Ware potatoes are processed in only chips and crisps.
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Potatoes