Hot potatoes

Summary

The potato crop does not like it hot. Potato is traditionally a crop of the cooler regions, either in temperate climate zones or at higher elevations in the tropics. Increasingly, the crop is also widely grown in areas where it might really get warm, and that results in lower tuber yields and lower tuber quality. This is, for example, the case in areas in India, one of the largest producers of potato in the world. But wouldn’t it also be great if we could produce high-quality potatoes in the lowland tropics?