Sweet potato
📍 Cape VerdeClick 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 Sweet potato grows in Cape Verde
Areas sub-humid and wet altitude
Located above an altitude of 700m with an inter-annual rainfall> m 600 m areas of vital importance for infiltration of rainwater and recharging aquifers
Semi-arid areas and sub-humid medium-low altitude
Located between 400-500 meters above sea level with an inter-annual rainfall of 400-600 mm. Agricultural zones with wide valleys and plateaus descendants or wetlands and sub-humid altitude and which stretch towards the sea water salinity problems and soil on the grounds of the area litorale
Semiarid areas Low - Medium altitude
Located between 200-400 m with an inter-annual rainfall of 200-400 mm. marginal areas for agriculture in rainfed (subsistence during the years of good rainfall) The benefits valleys ficient of the influence of sub-humid areas, wet altitude for charging as springs and aquifers (well / borehole It are low altitude 0-400 m altitude valleys and valleys> 500 m. areas exposed to winds
Sub-humid areas, wet low-medium altitude
Altitude: 600-1000m
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