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Certified seed potatoes are stored in a coldroom

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Certified seed potatoes are stored in a coldroom to enable them to go dormant. This ensures that they do not start sprouting prior to being delivered to commercial farmers, who will then plant them to produce table potatoes.

Potato marketer at the agribusiness GWK, Johann Botes (left), and producer Gerhard Bruwer discuss the quality of Lanorma potatoes due to be harvested soon.

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