Sustainable Potato Production

Author : Zhongqi He,Robert Larkin,Wayne Honeycutt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400741041

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Sustainable Potato Production: Global Case Studies by Zhongqi He,Robert Larkin,Wayne Honeycutt Pdf

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is grown in over 100 countries throughout the world. As a staple food, potato is the fourth most important crop after rice, wheat, and maize, and has historically contributed to food and nutrition security in the world. Global interest in potato increased recently as world food prices soared, threatening the global food security and stability. Unlike major cereals, potato is not a globally traded commodity, and prices are usually determined by local production costs. Thus, potato is increasingly regarded as a vital food-security crop and as a substitute for costly cereal imports. With such importance, the 29 chapters in the edited book address the issues of sustainable potato production. This book begins with an introduction on sustainable potato production and global food security, and then presents eight case studies selected globally and covering different issues relevant to sustainable potato production in both developed and developing countries.

Author : Londhe, Sunil
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522517160

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Sustainable Potato Production and the Impact of Climate Change by Londhe, Sunil Pdf

The potato is a significant food around the globe in the grand scheme of consumption. However, changes in the Earth’s climate are threatening to negatively impact the growth and production of agriculture, namely potatoes, which in turn will greatly alter the dimensions of food. Sustainable Potato Production and the Impact of Climate Change is an authoritative publication that provides the latest research on potato production in the future climate change scenario. Featuring exhaustive coverage on a variety of topics associated with food fundamentals such as, availability, stability, utilization, and accessibility, this reference work is an essential source for professionals, researchers and students seeking current research on the importance of potato cultivation.

Author : Zhongqi He,Robert Larkin,Wayne Honeycutt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400741030

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Sustainable Potato Production: Global Case Studies by Zhongqi He,Robert Larkin,Wayne Honeycutt Pdf

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is grown in over 100 countries throughout the world. As a staple food, potato is the fourth most important crop after rice, wheat, and maize, and has historically contributed to food and nutrition security in the world. Global interest in potato increased recently as world food prices soared, threatening the global food security and stability. Unlike major cereals, potato is not a globally traded commodity, and prices are usually determined by local production costs. Thus, potato is increasingly regarded as a vital food-security crop and as a substitute for costly cereal imports. With such importance, the 29 chapters in the edited book address the issues of sustainable potato production. This book begins with an introduction on sustainable potato production and global food security, and then presents eight case studies selected globally and covering different issues relevant to sustainable potato production in both developed and developing countries.

Author : Pam Dawling
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781550925128

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Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling Pdf

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.

Author : NeBambi Lutaladio
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251064091

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Sustainable Potato Production by NeBambi Lutaladio Pdf

During the International Year of the Potato, celebrated in 2008, FAO and the International Potato Center helped forge partnerships worldwide to address critical aspects of sustainable potato production. This technical guide collates that experience to review technical, socio-economic, policy and institutional factors that currently constrain increased potato production and productivity in tropical and sub-tropical countries. it presents Good Agriculture Practices relevant to potato production, and indicators and recommendations for action in key areas. It outlines a new policy and research agenda for the potato subsector that aims at making a real contribution to the eradication of hunger and poverty.

Author : Stuart J. Wale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Potato industry
ISBN : 1786761297

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Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Potatoes by Stuart J. Wale Pdf

Author : Pedro Manuel Villa
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1685072038

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The Potato Crop by Pedro Manuel Villa Pdf

Currently, climate change due to global warming induced mainly by land use changes (i.e., intensified agriculture and deforestation) is one of the biggest problems that humanity must urgently address. Thus, promoting models of sustainable agricultural production that ensure food security, environmental conservation and livelihoods for local populations is needed. In this context, humanity has the great challenge of integrating agriculture, ecosystems, environment, and people in the sustainable development scheme, especially with the focus on food systems that maintain a sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Fortunately, there are currently important advances in knowledge and technologies for the management of agrobiodiversity and agricultural crops of great economic and social relevance (i.e., wheat, corn, potatoes, cassava), which will be essential for future scenarios of environmental change. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the third most consumed crop that contributes to global food security. The potato continues to be recommended as a key food for human consumption, especially in the face of current population growth, related to problems with food supply, nutrition, and food security, and also climate change challenges globally. Understanding how abiotic (i.e., climate, nutrients) and biotic (i.e., pests and diseases) factors and management (i.e., genetic resources, planting) determine production and crop growth patterns has been an important issue in potato crop research. Researchers on potato crops aim to improve agricultural resources management, breeding and seed potato production, post-harvest practices, storage, supply chain, and food security. There are also significant knowledge and technological advances in sustainable potato production systems that have remarkably improved potato yields. This book aims to publish an overview about the current state of the art for sustainable potato production systems and achieving global nutrition and food security targets. The chapters of the book deal mainly with theoretical and practical fundamentals on seed potato production, crop growth and production, postharvest and storage of potato tubers. This integrative and comprehensive review is an important contribution to the knowledge of potato crop management and conservation of potato cultivars in the current context of global climate change, hunger, and poverty.

Author : Pedro Manuel Villa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Potatoes
ISBN : 1685070965

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The Potato Crop by Pedro Manuel Villa Pdf

"Currently, climate change due to global warming induced mainly by land use changes (i.e. intensified agriculture and deforestation) is one of the biggest problems that humanity must urgently address. Thus, promoting models of sustainable agricultural production that ensure food security, environmental conservation and livelihoods for local populations is needed. In this context, humanity has the great challenge of integrating agriculture, ecosystems, environment and people in the sustainable development scheme, especially with the focus on food systems that maintain a sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Fortunately, there are currently important advances in knowledge and technologies for the management of agrobiodiversity and agricultural crops of great economic and social relevance (i.e. wheat, corn, potatoes, cassava), which will be essential for future scenarios of environmental change. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the third most consumed crop that contributes to global food security. The potato continues to be recommended as a key food for human consumption, especially in the face of current population growth, related to problems with food supply, nutrition and food security, and also climate change challenges globally. Understanding how abiotic (i.e., climate, nutrients) and biotic (i.e., pests and diseases) factors and management (i.e., genetic resources, planting) determine production and crop growth patterns has been an important issue in potato crop research. Researchers on potato crops aim to improve agricultural resources management, breeding and seed potato production, post-harvest practices, storage, supply chain, and food security. There are also significant knowledge and technological advances in sustainable potato production systems that have remarkably improved potato yields. This book aims to publish an overview about the current state of the art for sustainable potato production systems and achieving global nutrition and food security targets. The chapters of the book deal mainly with theoretical and practical fundamentals on seed potato production, crop growth and production, postharvest and storage of potato tubers. This integrative and comprehensive review is an important contribution to the knowledge of potato crop management and conservation of potato cultivars in the current context of global climate change, hunger and poverty"--

Author : Hugo Campos,Oscar Ortiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030286835

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The Potato Crop by Hugo Campos,Oscar Ortiz Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.

Author : K. D. Kokate,Bir Pal Singh,Shantanu Kumar Dubey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Potatoes
ISBN : 8176222968

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Sustainable Potato Production in Hilly Region of India by K. D. Kokate,Bir Pal Singh,Shantanu Kumar Dubey Pdf

Author : Stuart J. Wale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : GARDENING
ISBN : 1351114522

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Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Potatoes Volume 2 by Stuart J. Wale Pdf

"Potatoes are one of the world's key food crops. Their nutritional value, and the fact that they can be grown with relatively few inputs in a wide range of environments, makes them an important food security crop. However, yields in developing countries are held back by factors such as poor cultivation practices and the impact of pests and diseases, whilst more intensive systems need to become more 'climate smart' both to minimise their environmental impact and adapt to climate change. This volume looks at key research on improving cultivation techniques at each stage in the value chain for potato production. Chapters in Part 1 range from modelling yields to nutrient and irrigation management as well as post-harvest storage. Part 2 reviews advances in understanding and managing fungal, bacterial and viral diseases as well as the management of insect pests and weeds. The final part of the book discusses ways of monitoring and reducing the environmental impact of potato cultivation. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for potato scientists, growers, government and non-government agencies supporting potato cultivation. Volume 1 looks at breeding and aspects of quality."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sandra Lanz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Potato industry
ISBN : 0734100159

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Sustainable Potato Production in Highland Areas of NSW - Stage III by Sandra Lanz Pdf

Author : Mustafa Yildiz (Agriculturist),Yasin Ozgen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Crop improvement
ISBN : 1839691670

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Solanum Tuberosum by Mustafa Yildiz (Agriculturist),Yasin Ozgen Pdf

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth-largest food crop produced in the world with approximately 370 million tonnes. This product is a staple in many diets throughout the world and the underground swollen tubers of the plant are rich sources of proteins, carbohydrates, minerals (K, Mn, Mg, Fe, Cu and P), and vitamins (C, B1, B3, B6, K, folate, pantothenic acid). Improvement of new potato cultivars resistant to biotic and abiotic factors is extremely important, as these are the main reasons for decreased potato production. Seed tuber production and tuber storage under healthy conditions after harvest are two important issues in potato cultivation. As such, this book discusses the importance of the potato plant and examines ways to increase its production and develop new cultivars resistant to stress factors via conventional and biotechnological methods.

Author : August Ernest Kehr,Robert V. Akeley,Geoffrey Van Clief Houghland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Potatoes
ISBN : UIUC:30112019252854

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Commercial Potato Production by August Ernest Kehr,Robert V. Akeley,Geoffrey Van Clief Houghland Pdf

Author : Gefu Wang-Pruski
Publisher : Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1786761009

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Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Potatoes Volume 1 by Gefu Wang-Pruski Pdf

Potatoes have long been one of the world's most important crops. The first volume in this two-volume sequence reviews advances in understanding plant physiology, genetics and breeding. It also discusses ways of understanding the nutritional and sensory properties of potatoes.