YIELDS OF POTATOES
Marked Effect Of Irrigation Irrigation has a marked effect on potato production, even in a comparatively wet season such a« last season. This is indicated by results obtained at the Winchmore irrigation research station. Dry Season In the dry 1959-60 season. Aucklander Short Tops under seven irrigations produced 9.8 tons of table potatoes to the acre, compared with 46 tons from unirrigated potatoes of the same variety Last season, when heavy rain followed the third irrigation treatment. virus-Y--free Aucklanders yielded 22 tons to the acre where they had been irrigated, and 12.3 tons where there was no irrigation. This season virus-Y-free Aucklanders are being irrigated at two stages of soil moisture and also beginning when potatoes are at the flowering stage and tubers are starting to set. So far there have been pronounced visual differences between irrigation treatments.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29714, 6 January 1962, Page 6
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