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D-certified-seed-potato Dictionary

Certified seed potato

Seed tubers tested and certified free of the main diseases

All termsIntroduced in M7Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
Seed tubers tested and certified free of the main diseases
How to use it
Buy certified seed every season; saved seed carries disease forward.
South African benchmark
South African potato yields rest on a formal certified seed potato system (Article 44).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M7-U1, M7-U6
Calculate it
T-M7-03 Seed and Input Plan
Library sources
LIB-A043, LIB-A044, LIB-P-Potato, LIB-P-Potato-IP
See also
Late blight
Potato: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedPotato: how the business runsSold by10 kg bags or tonnes per hectare1Plant seed2Grow3Lift4Grade and bag5Fresh market or processorZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Potato Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M7 Potato.