What is a potato crop?
Postatized crop is commercial food crops grown for sale in raw or processed food products. Farmers who grow potatoes can sell them directly or through a broker or can create them on the basis of a contract for food manufacturers or restaurants chains. Prices may vary from year to year depending on availability, consumer demand and other market conditions. Other crops except potatoes can be made for diversification of possibilities and some farms produce a number of potatoes varieties. In general, they are divided into starch and wax types that can be useful for the production of various types of foods such as baked, fried and porridge. When choosing a good variety for potato crops, the farmer must think about demand, ease of growth and previous farm performance. In other cases, the potato crop may be designed for processing to make products like chips, frozen potato products thatThey can fry or baked, potato starch and related processed food ingredients. Farmers grow their crop vegetatively and use starts from seed potatoes, which are known to work well and produce crops of uniform size and quality.
Potato farm conditions include Sandy to clay soil and cold cultivation conditions. Farms with extreme heat or wet soil are not suitable for potato crops. The tubers are usually planted after the last chance of Frost and leaving for the harvest season, when mechanical combinations can streamline the process of digging tubers and prepare them for sale. After the harvest, the field can be treated and dressed to prepare it for next year.
As well as other commercial food crops, Prodice potatoes can be susceptible to infections with mold and microorganisms in addition to infestation of rodents and other problems. They can erase the whole orpart of the crop and lead to substantial losses, which is one of the reasons why the farmer can decide to have agricultural insurance. Natural methods of pest control may include planting accompaniment for pest control or birds encouragement to feed themselves rodents. It is also possible to spray and treat crops to solve these problems, in which case they will not be entitled to environmental certification, which is a fear for some farmers.