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Vegetable

Potato

📍 Mauritania

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
Nov – Dec
Harvest
Jan – Apr
Growing period
100 - 130 days
Seeding rate
3000 - 5000 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 Mauritania

other

Zone River

Strip along lefleuve Senegal Moughataa (Department) Keur Macène (Southwest Trarza) in Gouraye (South East Guidimakha). = 350-450mm rainfall. Temperature = 15-45 ° C depending on the seasons. = Wintering seasons (rainy season) from June to September and dry season (October to May). Soils = clayey or silty (Hydromorphic); Brown and sandy (low water retention)

other

maritime area

It covers a narrow coastal strip (50 km wide) and extends from Nouadhibou to the mouth of the Senegal River. Seasons: rainy from August to September and saisonsèche (October-July) .Températures = 10-35 ° C. Rainfall = 0-50 mm, rarely reaches 100 mm despite the rain and dew winter (December-January). sSols = sandy halomorphic

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