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About Kenya's potato sector

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Kenya

About Kenya's potato sector

Beyond the plate: what potato farming has to do with rural mental health

Kenya has the policy momentum for WPC 2026. The seed and market gaps haven't gone anywhere

Potato earns a seat at Kenya's $-billion AgriConnect table — recognition, not yet funding

Kenya's potato industry has the seed and the tech. What it's short on is people.

Kenya bets on a single national cooperative to fix smallholder bargaining power — details are still thin

Why better seed, not more land, may be the fastest way to lift Kenya's potato yields

Kenya's potato advisors are learning bookkeeping now, not just blight control

Kenya tries to put every apical-cuttings trainer on the same page

Kenya bets on Dutch seed and a stronger KEPHIS to build a domestic multiplication chain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The missing middle: why aggregation decides who profits from potatoes

Building a cold chain that smallholders can actually use

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

The fry frontier: why global processors are circling African potatoes

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

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