-1- Potato Production Planting through Harvest. This manual covers recommended practices for: site selection, planting, bed preparation, pre-emergence practices, irrigation, post emergence care, row closure, tuber sizing, disease management, pest management, vine killing and harvest phases of seasonal produc-tion under Iraqi conditions.

USAID-KAVES Potato Value Chain Analysis August 2015 Prepared by Fintrac Inc. 7 Margins Analysis The analysis in this report shows that, at current costs and prices, producers earn the highest margins on their potatoes, at 51 percent, which are twice those of brokers (25 percent), and more than three times of wholesalers (15 percent).

Giorgi is one of more than 2,300 farmers benefiting from the USAID Potato Program in Georgia, an activity launched in 2019 to help Georgia’s potato sector become more modern and productive, and better able to replace costly imports with domestically produced potatoes.

The facility uses in-vitro fertilization to produce seed potatoes (the first stage in the field production process) for 19 different varieties of potato – all resistant to disease and competitive on international markets.