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Simple and practical application of tissue culture by farmers in their homes revolutionized seed potato production for farmers in the 1980s. And continues to this day.
“GO HOME AND PLANT KAMOTE!” This is the usual expression for a student that failed, an athlete that did not perform well or a person losing the business.
During the early 1980s farmers on Mount Kanlaon suffered from serious soil borne diseases and viruses in their potato fields.
High on a Himalayan mountain plateau above 2,900 masl resource poor farmers survive on a single summer crop of potatoes, barley, pasture and mustard.