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Dieleman Potatoes takes aim at Uganda's seed-potato gap

A founder-led Dutch-Ugandan venture is routing Agrico's registered varieties through Kenya's Nakuru cold-chain to chip away at Uganda's certified-seed gap.

Dieleman Potatoes takes aim at Uganda's seed-potato gap

Nakuru Tubers bets on certified seed to break Kenya's Shangi dependence

Côte d'Ivoire leads the world in cocoa but imports almost all its potatoes

Lesotho moves to cut potato imports, but quality seed remains the constraint

Christella Uwase: the young Rwandan seed multiplier taking inclusivity to WPC 2026

Dinah Borus: the seed scientist bringing Kenya's apical cuttings to WPC 2026

Pooja Pandey: India's apical-cutting playbook, and its lessons for African seed systems

Soundararadjane S: India's potato-processing story and its lessons for Africa

Inside the World Potato Congress 2026: programme, speakers and field days

Seed to fries: the Kenyan hosts of the World Potato Congress

Kenya to host the first World Potato Congress in Sub-Saharan Africa

Production costs and tight supply push Nigeria's potato prices higher

How Egypt turned the desert into Africa's potato export engine

The Seed Reckoning: Africa's potato seed gap, by the numbers

A bumper crop turns sour: South Africa's potato price slump runs into 2026

Kenya bets on soilless seed to break its certified-seed bottleneck

The 30-year hunt for a blight-proof potato reaches Africa's fields

From the field

Plateau State wants to triple potato yields. Seed is the test.

The missing middle: why aggregation decides who profits from potatoes

Building a cold chain that smallholders can actually use

Iron-biofortified potatoes could help tackle anaemia in Africa's highlands

More from the industry

Fifty years of breeding, and Ethiopia's potato yields still trail. The bottleneck is seed.

One seed market, many rulebooks: Africa moves to harmonise certification

The fry frontier: why global processors are circling African potatoes

Algeria's potato paradox: big enough to export, volatile enough to import

Morocco's potato exports come roaring back after a self-inflicted collapse

Malawi rebuilds its potato seed system one village at a time

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