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Potatoes

33 Amazing Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes

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33 Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are often consumed as a snack. They can be easily found both in traditional market or modern market, even several nutrition’s in sweet potatoes is good for our body, we have to be aware of the risk for our health that might come after we consume sweet potato. Health Benefits of Sweet Potato 1) Preventing Diabetes The patients of diabetes have such a strict eating pattern. They have to eat good and healthy food and avoid sweet food source. Sweet potatoes can still be consumed by the patients of diabetes…

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How to Convert Potato Wastes into Ethanol (Researchers Reveals)

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How to Convert Potato Wastes into Ethanol (Researchers Reveals)

According to the Materials provided by Penn State, Researcher Ali Demirci adjusts a bioreactor in which potato waste is being used to produce bioethanol with a novel process that simultaneously employs mold and yeast to convert starch to sugar and sugar to ethanol. Credit: Dimerci Lab With more than two dozen companies in Pennsylvania manufacturing potato chips, it is no wonder that researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a novel approach to more efficiently convert potato waste into ethanol. This process may lead to reduced production…

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Sweet potato Production and Management

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How Chloropicrin application increases Production and Profit Potential for Potato Growers

According to the manual Produced by CIP-Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Office (SSA), Nairobi, Sweet potato has the potential to produce remarkably high yields if given the right growing conditions and can also yield more reliably under unfavorable conditions than many other crops, which is why it is so important for household food security in many places in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This topic therefore deals with the environmental factors that can influence sweet potato production which inlcudes: – soil and nutrients, water, light and temperature with their management, and with production practices…

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Selecting and preparing land for sweet potatoes planting

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Let us discuss about the factors to be considered when selecting and preparing land for sweet potatoes planting. Some of the basic factors to be considered when selecting a a site for sweet potato farming includes: Altitude: Sweet potato grows well from sea level upto 1,700m above sea level (m.a.s.l.). Some varieties even grow up to 2,500m.a.s.l. but have poorer taste and lower dry matter. Soils: Sweet potato can be grown on many types of soil but does best on deep, moderately fertile, sandy loam soils, which produce high quality…

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When to plant and Planting methods of Sweet Potatoes

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How to Convert Potato Wastes into Ethanol (Researchers Reveals)

Sweet potatoes are being planted on mounds, ridges or flat beds meanwhile good soil aeration is also required for storage root initiation, growth and higher yields, therefore the height of the mound or ridge to be used is very important. The mounds and ridges to be used must ensure good drainage, making it easier to harvest the mature roots, especially when harvesting is done in a piecemeal fashion as is often the case with sweet potatoes. Whether mounds or ridges or beds are used, their sizes always varies among locations,…

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