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Vegetable

Potato

📍 Cameroon

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

1 2 3 4 5
Sow Harvest
Sow
Mar – Apr
Harvest
Jun – Jul
Growing period
90 - 110 days
Seeding rate
50000 - 60000 plantsha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Potato grows in Cameroon

hill mountain

Adamawa Plateau

Cete region includes many flat contrantant with hills and mountains altitude vary from 1000 to 2000 m. It is characterized by the existence of a dense network hydrographyque including many rivers and sources of all the rivers of Cameroon whose Sanaga. Altitude: Average of 1 100 m, ranging from 900 to 1500 m from north to south. Soil type ferralitique weakly to strongly desaturated shallower with good porosity. Two seasons of almost equal duration: from November to March: dry season from April to October: rainy season. annual rainfall: 1500 m. Pluvimétrie: unimodal. Temperatures: Maxi Maxi annual average: 29.8 ° C, average annual Mini: 17 ° C. Relative humidity: average annual High: 89.58% average annual Mini: 44.16%.

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High West plateaux

The western mountainous region includes the western provinces and the Northwest. This area has an average altitude lly high steep slopes of the many hills with fertile volcanic cover. Altitude: Plateau Bamiléké: 1 400-1800 m, Plateau Bamun: 1 100- 1 200 m, Plateau grassfields; 1 500- 2000 m. Soil type ferrallitic and volcanic places. Two seasons: a logue season in mid-March of rain in November and December a small dry season in mid-March. Precipitation (1 750-2 700 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monomodale.Températures Maxi annual average: 24.73 ° C, Mini yearly average: 15.48 ° C. Relative Humidity: Max average annual 94% average annual Mini: 54.62% .Végétation: savannah altitude.

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