Classroom module 1 (half day) –

• Link between crop management and potato growth and development;
• Characteristics of potatoes (e.g. clonal, perishable);
• Growth keys (e.g. BBCH);
• Seed (dormancy, apical dominance, physiological and chronological age, sprouting, storage temperature, pathology, size, cutting);
• Emergence (soil temperature, planting depth, pathology);
• Above-ground morphology (main stems, branches, flowering);
• Below-ground morphology (roots, stolons, tubers);
• Root growth (soil conditions, variety);
• Leaf appearance (temperature, variety, nutrition);
• Tuber initiation (definitions, timing, duration, variety);
• Crop cover (leaf area index, ground cover);
• Dry matter accumulation (radiation use efficiency, water, pathology);
• Partitioning of dry matter (nitrogen, variety, time, harvest index);
• Development of yield (rate of bulking, factors affecting);
• Tuber dry matter concentration (variety, nutrients, change with time);
• Tuber populations (relation with stem population, variety, environment);
• Tuber size distributions (mean tuber size, uniformity, marketable yield);
• Senescence and harvesting (haulm destruction, skin set, bruising);
• Storage (suberisation, weight loss, pathology, biochemical changes).

PLEASE NOTE:PR13 Improving potato yields and profitability by measuring and monitoring performance (from 01:30 pm) the same day.  Book both courses for a full day of training.

Trainers are accredited by ARTIS

Participants receive an ARTIS Accredited Certificate