seed potato and planting

Imbuto y’ibirayi(Seed potato)

Jean Claude Nshimiyimana, Seed System Officer, Rwanda

Dieudonné Harahagazwe, Scientist, Kenya

International Potato Center (CIP)

Kadahenda, 28/04/2016

Integrated potato crop management

course

Ubwoko bw’imbuto

1. Imbuto y’ukuri cg umurama

2. Imbuto isanzwe:

� Ingemwe

� Mini-tubers

� Imbuto imenyerewe

Imbuto y’ukuri cg umurama

4

30 – 60 mm diameter (CIP)

Imbuto isanzwe

Ibyiciro by’imbuto (Seed Generations)

� G1

� G2- G3

Ingemwe z’ibirayi muri Laboratwari

Musanze, Rwanda

Uko imbuto isanzwe iboneka

Gutubura imbuto z’ibanze(convention system of seed potato production – Musanze,

Rwanda)

Imiterere y’amazu atuburirwamo

28/06/2016

Uburyo busanzwe (cont’d)(convention system of seed potato production)

28/06/2016

Musanze, Rwanda

Uburyo busanzwe (cont’d) (convention system – Musanze, Rwanda)

Kwita ku birayi muri screen house (crop

management)

28/06/2016

Uburyo budasanzwe(Aeroponic system)

28/06/2016

Musanze, Rwanda

Uburyo budasanzwe(Eg. Aeroponic system)

28/06/2016

Uburyo budasanzwe (Eg. Sandoponic system)

Uyole, Tanzania

Imbuto z’ibanze

15 - 30 mm per mini tuber or

13 - 17 g per mini tuber

Mulungu, DRC

Gutubura imbuto mu murima (Kinigi Seed Farm)�

Seed

incre

ase

Uburyo bwo gutubura imbuto (Seed production processes)

�Gutera/ Planting

�Kubagara/ Weeding

�Gusukira/ Hilling up

�Ibindi/ Etc

Gutera- Planting

� Ryari (When)? Ikirayi- Kigeze igihe cyo guterwa; igihe

nyacyo cyo gutera- Imvura? n? (ukuhe kwezi?);

Ibikenerwa bindi birahari: Imborera? Ifumbire

y’imvaruganda? Abakozi?

�Gute (How)?

� Intera hagati y’ikirayi n’ikindi: 75-80 cm x 25-30 cm

� Ifumbire (Ingano kuri buri mwobo):

� Imborera: 500 g

� Imvaruganda: 10 – 15 g

� Hakenewe iki (What needs)?

Imbuto, ifumbire, ubutaka, ikirere kiza,

ibindi, etc

Kubagara & Gusukira(Weeding & hilling-up)

� Ryari (when)?

� Gute (How)?

� Hakenewe iki

(What needed?)

� Kubera iki (Why?)

Umurima utarabagawe

Umurima urimo

gusukirwa

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge Humidtropics and the CGIAR Fund Donors

for their provision of core and project-specific funding without which this

research could not deliver results that eventually positively impact the lives

of millions of smallholder farmers in tropical Americas, Asia and Africa.

This presentation was made at a training workshop on Integrated Potato Crop

Management organized by International Potato Center (CIP) for Innovation

Platform (IP) members of Kadahenda, Rwanda.

Murakoze cyane !!!

For more information, please contact/ Ukeneye ibindi

bisobanuro, wabaza Jean Claude Nshimiyimana:

Email: J.Nshimiyimana@cigar.org; cnshimiye@gmail.com

Phone: (+250) 788-500-053/ 788-639-417