Input Costs Hamper Potato Production

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By Wezi Tjaronda

WINDHOEK

At a time when the world is banking on the potato as a high nutrient crop that can help vulnerable consumers evade the current high food prices, high production costs per hectare in Namibia remain the biggest limiting factor.

Although production has increased a hundred fold from 2006 to last year, prospects for 2008 do not look so good. The Namibia Agronomic Board estimates that the first harvest yielded 5??????’??