Potato
📍 EritreaClick 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 Eritrea
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
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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