Potato and Tuber Crops

Seed Tuber Production

• Unlike sexually propagated crops, potato crop is raised mainly with the use of stem i.e. tuber as the initial planting material.
• Thus apart from varietal purity, the planting material (designated as seed potato) should be free from various infections for getting maximum yield.
• Infected tubers are used for further multiplication, the seed stock would undoubtedly degenerate rapidly and thereby the yielding ability would also deteriorate progressively.
• Consequently, use of healthy seed material is a pre-requisite for disease free seed potato multiplication.