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Seed Quality and Variety Preferences Amongst Potato Farmers in North-Western Kenya: Lessons for the Adoption of New Varieties

2024-03-01

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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an important commercialised food crop in Kenya. Recently, Kenya has realised a huge increase in the number of formally released potato varieties. The performance of these varieties is not clear and their adoption across various growing environments is low. This study explored how availability, access, quality and systems of seed and storability and market demand of potatoes influen...

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Literature Corpus work: 5a331b63-81b3-597d-abe8-b3b7ce648d45
DOI: 10.1007/s11540-023-09626-8

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