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Virus screening and elimination are necessary steps to prevent the spread of diseases when moving plant material from place to place. However, these measures can cause long delays in the release of new varieties. This project seeks to develop improved methods for disease detection, as well as phy...

Sweetpotato, particularly orange-fleshed varieties, has under-exploited potential to improve nutrition and help build resilience to climate change among poor farming families across India. This project, which aims to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods in Odisha state, was first imp...

While demand for potatoes is expanding throughout sub-Saharan Africa, productivity is still limited by a lack of clean, disease-free planting materials. This project seeks to boost food security and incomes among smallholder potato farmers by tackling one of their chief constraints-bacterial wilt...

Potato has underexploited potential to contribute to food security and income generation among Ugandan small-scale women and men farmers. This project focuses on building the skills of private sector early-generation seed producers and decentralized seed multipliers and improving current ware pot...

Uso efectivo del agua en el cultivo de papa en zonas aridas para mejorar el manejo del riego mediante el monitoreo del estatus hidrico para enfrentar al cambio climatico.

Climate change is increasingly threatening food security throughout the developing world, and there is urgent need for new, stress-tolerant varieties of major crops like potato. This project focuses on breeding early-maturing, stresstolerant potato varieties to boost productivity and incomes for ...

By disseminating quality planting materials of improved orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties, the International Potato Center helps farmers increase yields, enhancing household food and nutrition security and incomes. The project goes further by delivering the knowledge farmers need to maintain a...

A crop disease outbreak requires rapid and specific intervention measures, if large yield losses are to be avoided, but farmers often struggle to identify what is causing the problem. A novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based mobile phone app could provide an effective, low-cost and easy-to-use ...

Jharkhand has great potential to boost potato production, making use of unused agricultural land. New varieties, land pooling, market linkages, farming synchronization, post-harvest technologies, and improved access to seed will improve the potato sector for farmers, consumers, and value chain ac...