Potato Minitubers Production in Plant Tissue Culture Lab at College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, UoD in Cooridination with Kartopa and IBP Companies
Kartopa Company UoD
- Potato Minitubers Production in Plant Tissue Culture Lab at College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, UoD in Cooridination with Kartopa and IBP Companies
- Objectives:
- Propagation of 10 potato varieties via tissue culture technique
- Recording two new varieties in Erbil and Baghdad
- Work opportunities for initially graduated agricultural engineers
- Minitubers production for the first time in Iraq and Kurdistan Region
- Potato Minitubers Production in Plant Tissue Culture Lab at College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, UoD in Cooridination with Kartopa and IBP Companies
- Budget:
- 200,000$
- Duration: Starts in March 2020- Continued
- Providing greenhouse cooling and heating system
- Improving PTC lab equipping and facilitation
otato Minitubers Production in Plant Tissue Culture Lab at College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, UoD in Cooridination with Kartopa and IBP Companies
- Activities:
- Potato micropropagation
- Minitubers production in greenhouse
- Trial fields in three locations
- Recoding new varieties
- Production of super-elite potato seed tubers