Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 2: Production, storage and crop protection [Hardcover]

• Comprehensive coverage of improvements in cultivation techniques across the potato value chain, from yield modelling to post-harvest storage
• Detailed review of the main fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting potatoes
• Reviews best practices for improving nutrient management in potato cultivation

This volume looks at key research on improving cultivation techniques at each stage in the value chain for potato production. Chapters in Part 1 range from modelling yields to nutrient and irrigation management as well as post-harvest storage. Part 2 reviews advances in understanding and managing fungal, bacterial and viral diseases as well as the management of insect pests and weeds. The final part of the book discusses ways of monitoring and reducing the environmental impact of potato cultivation.

With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for potato scientists, growers, government and non-government agencies supporting potato cultivation. Volume 1 looks at breeding and aspects of quality.

Sustainable potato cultivation means simultaneously addressing and resolving a complex set of varied and interlinked context-specific constraints. These books promise to rise to the occasion with a talented cast of authors who span the disciplinary spectrum from genetics, pests and diseases, cropping systems all the way through to nutrition and consumer perspectives.
Graham Thiele, Director - CGIAR Research Program on Roots Tubers and Bananas, led by the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru

Potatoes are one of the worlds key food crops. Their nutritional value, and the fact that theylÃ6