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Vegetable

Potato

📍 Eritrea

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

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Sow Harvest
Sow
Jun – Jul
Harvest
Sep – Nov
Growing period
105 - 135 days
Seeding rate
2000 kg/ha
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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 Eritrea

hill mountain

Moist highland

Central and southern highland. Altitude: 1600 - 2600m (318m maximum). Relief Dominant slope: Undulating to rolling platzux, hills, ridges, valleys . Soil: Cambisols, luvisols, lithosols, vertisols . Temperature (Mean): 15 - 21ºC

hill mountain

Sub-humid escarpment

Central and easter escarpment. Altitude: 600-2600m. Relief: Steep escarpment with mountains & valleys. Soil: Lithosols, camisols, fluvisols. Precipitation (mean): 700 - 1100 mm. Temperature (mean): 16 - 27ºC

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