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Potato

📍 Mozambique

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
Oct – Dec
Harvest
Jan – Feb
Growing period
90 - 120 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 Mozambique

hill mountain

R10

Located in high hills where the altitudes are above 1200 meters above the mean sea level, the soils in the agroecological zone R10 are Rhodic Ferrasols, Eutric Leptsols and Ferric Lixisols. This region receives an annual rainfall of about 1200mm and the annual average temperature vary up to 22ºC.

other

R2

The agroecological zone R2 is characterized by altitudes below 200m above the mean sea level. The dominant soil characteristics of the Agroecological zone R2 are Arenosols, Ferralic Arenosols and Chromic Luvisols. The annual average precipitation of the region is about 500-800mm and the temperatures vary from 24ºC-26ºC annual average.

other

R4

With its rainy season running from November to March and an annual rainfall ranging from 1000 to 1200 mm, the Agroecological zone R4 is located in altitudes varying from 200-1000m above the mean sea level. The temperature over this region ranges from 17.5ºC to 32.5ºC and the soils in the region are a mixture of Rhodic Ferrasols, Eutric Fluvisols, Halpic Acrisols, Cambic Arenosols, and Ferric Lixisols.

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