Agriculture Extension Balochistan - Potato (White)

Crop Detail Over the years, potato has become an important crop for both farmers and consumers in Pakistan. It is the fourth most important crop by volume of production; it is high yielding, having a high nutritive value and gives high returns to farmers. His recent large increase in acreage was reached by an intensification of the cultivation in existing potato growing areas, as well as by introduction of the crop in new areas and to inexperienced farmers. Hence, many problems, like diseases and pests, became more hazardous and a large number of farmers are lacking knowledge of the right cultivation technique. These include pests and disease control, land preparation and irrigation, fertilizer application, crop rotation and multi-cropping techniques. The lack of credit facilities to purchase inputs creates difficulties, in particular for small farmers, inhibiting their effort to raise productivity.
Major/Minor	Major
Temporary/Permanent	Temporary
Category	Agriculture Extension
Type	Vegetables
Climate	Tropical
Water Method	Irrigated
Duration	Perennial
Economic Type	Food Crop
Growing Season	Rabi / Winter / Cold Crops

Technical / overall requirement of fertilizer
100:50:50 Kgs of N:P:K

Overall application schedule
50% N and 100% P and K at sowing and 50%N at earthing up time

Fertilizer Combinations
2 bags each of NP and SOP at sowing and 2 bags AN at earthinng up

What to do if AN is not available
Instead of 4 bags AN use 5 bags Amonium Sulfate

Quantis Crop Enhancement
To enhance plant growth and fruiting.

Kumolus
2 kg/acre

Porus
8 litter/ acre

Cut Worms Mites Aphids White grub Wild Boar Aphids

Late Blight Stem Cankar tuber rot Early Blight Common Scab

All weeds

Bacterial Soft Rot