This week’s Farmer story from Nigeria talks about methods for managing diseases in Irish potatoes and ensuring that seed potatoes are healthy and disease-free. Our Script of the week is a backgrounder on producing Irish potatoes.
The backgrounder includes the following sections:
- Why the subject is important to listeners
- Key facts
- Big challenges in production
- Gender aspects of potato production
- Predicted impact of climate change on potato production
- Selecting and preparing land
- Planting
- Ridging and weeding
- Diseases and pests
- Further resources