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In today`s episode of KILIMO NA KENAGRO, we focus on Potato Farming in Kenya.
Justina Njambi is an inspirational Large Scale Potato Farmer from Molo, Nakuru County in Kenya.
A Passionate and Vibrant farmer; She shares tips of her successful journey being one amongst the many 800,000 Kenyan Farmers growing Potatoes in Large/ Small Scale.
- PROJECTED YIELD CAPACITY: 100 - 150 Bags/ Acre
POTATO FARMING
Potato Seeds Selection/ Certified Seeds which are (Resistant to Potato Cyst, Diseases and High Quality Producing)
POTATO FARMING IN MOLO
• Seed Variety: "Cangi" or "Shangi" from ADC Molo
• Spacing: Within Rows (30 × 30 cm)
Between Rows (60 × 60cm)
• Sprouting: 3 weeks
• Moulding: 3 weeks
• Irrigation: Drip & Overhead or Annual Rains
KENAGRO SUPPLIERS LIMITED (POTATO CROP PROTECTION PRODUCTS)
INSECTICIDES
1. Vendex 50EC - Controls Cutworms & Chewing Pests
- Active Ingredient: Lambdacyhalothrin 50g/l
- Dose Rate: 12ml/20L
- Available Packs: 25ml, 50ml, 100ml, 250ml, 500ml, 1L
2. Foscap Top 250ME (Drenching)- Controls Potato Cyst Nematodes, Wireworms (Burrowing) & Millipedes
- Active Ingredient: Fosthiazate 200g/L + Abamectin 50g/L
- Dose Rate: 10ml/20L (Soil Drench)
- Available Packs: 50ml, 100ml, 250ml, 500ml, 1L & 5L
3. Aragon 220ZC - Controls Whiteflies & Thrips (Sucking Pests at Flowering Stage which cause; Flower Abortion, Spread Spotted Curl Virus & Low Production)
‐ Active Ingredient: Thiamethoxam 126g/L + Lambdacyhalothrin 94g/L
- Dose Rate: 10ml/ 20L
Available Packs: 50ml, 100ml, 250ml, 500ml & 1L
HERBICIDES
1. Kausha 480SL -Herbicide Sprayed during Land Preparation
Non Selective Systemic (Clears All types of prennial
grasses and broad leaved weeds)
- Active Ingredient: Glyphosphate 480g/l
- Dose Rate: 200 - 300ml/20L
- Available Packs: 200ml, 500ml, 1L, 5L,20L
2. Jangwa 700WP - Wettable Powder Herbicide Sprayed during Sprouting & When soil is moist
Selective Early Post Emergence (Controls Annual Grasses and Broad Leaf Weeds in Potatoes, Carrots & Snow peas )
- Active Ingredient: Metribuzin 700g/Kg
- Dose Rate: 15g/20L
- Available Packs: 50g, 100g, 250g, 500g & 1Kg
FUNGICIDES
1. Pablo 600WG (Preventive & Curative Wettable Powder Fungicide for the Control of Early & Late Blight in Potatoes (Brown lesions)
- Active Ingredient: Pyraclostrobin 5g/Kg + Metiram 550g/Kg
- Dose rate: 40g/20L
- Available Packs: 250g & 1Kg
FOLIAR FERTILIZERS/ FERTILIZERS
1. Brilliant Starter & Vegetative Growth Liquid Fertilizer
✔️High Nitrogen: Enhances Tubers & Foliage Development.
✔️High Phosphorus: Helps in Healthy Root Setting aiding uptake of Soil Nutrients.
✔️Ammonium Phosphate: Controls Downy Mildew & Fast Metabolism of nutrients (1 week duration)
- Active Ingredient: Ammonium Phosphate
- Dose Rate: 40ml/20L
- QUALITIES: (5)
✔️Helps in Root Hair Formation & Healthy Root Setting
✔️Increases Tuber Formation
✔️Increases Vegetative Growth
✔️Gives a Deep Green Coloration of Leaves/ Chlorophyll
✔️ Controls Blight & Downey Mildew Protection
- Available Packs: 250ml, 500ml, 1L, 5L, 20L
2. Microfert Ti (Micro Nutrient Fertilizer)
Applied in All Stages (Starter| Vegetative| Flowering Stage)
- Components: Manganese, Zinc, Iron, Boron, Titanium, Amino Acid & Chitosan Micro nutrients
- Dose Rate: 20ml/20L
- QUALITIES: (8)
✔️ Supplements Nutrient Deficiencies
✔️Helps Activate Plant Cells increasing Growth & Improving Photosynthesis
✔️Promotes Early Maturity, Increases Fruit Shelf life
✔️Improves Availability of Soil Fertilizer for plants
✔️Increases Fruit Sugar Content
✔️Promotes Budding and increases fruit size
✔️Enables Good Coloration of Flowers & Fruits
- Available Packs: 250ml, 500ml, 1L
3.Golden Leaf (Wetter Sticker)
Applied while doing a Fungicide/ Insecticide/ Foliar Application to enhance their effectiveness.
- Active Ingredient: Polyalkylenoxide modified heptemethyl trisiloxane 980g/l
- Dose Rate: 2ml in 20L &
20ml/20L (Spider mites)
- QUALITIES: (4)
✔️Wetter/ Sticker: Allows products to Stick on Leaf Surface without being washed away by rains.
✔️ Spreader: Enables products to Spread all over the leaf surface.
✔️Trans laminar: Ensures products have penetrated beneath leaf surface for maximum effectiveness.
In Insecticide application, enhances control by killing eggs of insects usually laid underneath leaves.
✔️Miticide: Controls Spider mites affecting crops.
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2 окт 2023
