POTATOES AFRICA
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Kenya

About Kenya's potato sector

Evergreen profile — production regions, growing seasons, leading varieties, processing capacity and the crop's role in the economy. Replace this panel with editorial copy.

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Policy

Kenya's potato council maps a five-point plan to fix its chaotic market — and pay for itself

14 Jul 2026
Seed potatoes prepared for distribution to smallholder farmers in Uganda.
Seed systems

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

20 Jun 2026
Iron-biofortified potatoes shown against figures on anaemia and biofortification in sub-Saharan Africa.
Research

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

20 Jun 2026
Seed potatoes stored on ventilated shelving in a diffused-light store at Nakuru Tubers in Nakuru County, Kenya.
Seed systems

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

17 Jun 2026
Dr Dinah Borus, Nairobi-based seed-potato scientist and World Potato Congress 2026 speaker.
Seed systems

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

12 Jun 2026
Pooja Pandey, CIP potato scientist based in Haryana, India, and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker.
Seed systems

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

12 Jun 2026
Soundararadjane S, CEO of HyFarm (HyFun Foods) and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker from India.
Processing

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

12 Jun 2026
Seed potatoes sorted into trays for grading
Seed systems

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

10 Jun 2026
Disease-free potato mini-tubers raised in a controlled-environment seed system
Seed systems

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

09 Jun 2026
Researcher inspecting potato plants in a disease-screening trial
Climate & disease

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

08 Jun 2026
A conference hall being set up for an international potato industry gathering.
Trade & markets

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

08 Jun 2026
Sacks of potatoes aggregated at a rural collection point
Trade & markets

The missing middle: why aggregation decides who profits from potatoes

07 Jun 2026
Solar-powered cold storage unit serving smallholder farmers
Production

Building a cold chain that smallholders can actually use

07 Jun 2026
Bagged certified seed potatoes with inspection labels
Policy

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

07 Jun 2026
Frozen french fries moving along a processing line
Processing

The fry frontier: why global processors are circling African potatoes

06 Jun 2026
Certified seed potatoes being graded and bagged at a Kenyan farm operation.
Seed systems

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

03 Jun 2026
Potato farmland in Kenya's Rift Valley, the region hosting the 2026 World Potato Congress.
Trade & markets

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

30 May 2026