Potato training
Potato Seed Development project:
Climate Smart Potato Demonstration Centre
Potato cultivation training
- Preparation (crop rotation & soil sampling, weed killing & ploughing, fertiliser application & nutrients);
- Planting (furrows & ridges, row distances, planting distances, tuber spacing, certified seed potatoes, treatments);
- Growing (weed killing, top dressing, nematodes);
- Disease (recognising types of diseases, prevention, treatment, timing, planning, waste management);
- Harvesting (maturing period, harvesting, grading, sorting);
- Storing techniques (temperatures, humidity & ventilation; Energy & back-up systems).
Harvesting. Field preparation: mowing of tops.
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Harvesting. Field preparation and determining the harvesting time (maturing period).
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Potato (field) equipment training
- Land preparation;
- Planters;
- Ridgers & re-ridgers;
- Sprayers;
- Harvesters;
- Sorters.
Regenerative farming training
- Cover crops – soil health
- Rotary digging instead of ploughing as soil preparation
- Fertigation
- Drip irrigation
- No-till for grain/row-crops during the crop rotation
- Latest techniques
Business case training
- Net profit increase;
- Cost price reduction;
- Revenue growth;
- De-risking potato farming;
- Partnerships: partners who will support in training (Yara UA, Syngenta UA, Adama UA, Irrigator UA).
Contacts:
Agrico Ukraine
3, Kovpaka Str.
Kyiv, 03150, Ukraine
tel:+380991000454;
+380671000454
e-mail: potato@agrico.com.ua