Potato and Tuber Crops

Advantages of TPS

Advantages of True Potato Seeds

• By using TPS, the entire tuber harvest would become available for table purpose
• Cost of seed would be cheaper as very small quantity will be needed to plant unit area.
• Transport of TPS is inexpensive and simple.
• 100 grams of TPS can replace 2 tonnes of seed tubers required for planting one hectare.
• TPS may introduce potato cultivation into new areas where good quality seed tubers are difficult to produce or store economically.
• TPS can be stored for relatively longer period of time and does not require expensive and specialized storage structures as required for seed tubers.
• Disease transmission by TPS is less than by seed tubers. Hence, the crop raised through TPS in almost disease free.
• The heterogeneity of the population derived from TPS is expected to offer wide genetic diversity and greater resistance to pathogens.
• TPS Production Technology