Home Potato farmer’s virgin soil strategy to reduce disease risk Lanorma potatoes fresh from the earth. The cost of producing a hectare of irrigation potatoes is as much as R200 000/ha.

Lanorma potatoes fresh from the earth. The cost of producing a hectare of irrigation potatoes is as much as R200 000/ha.

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Lanorma potatoes fresh from the earth. The cost of producing a hectare of irrigation potatoes is as much as R200 000/ha.

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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