Potato
📍 CameroonClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
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 .
Where Potato grows in Cameroon
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%.
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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