Fast Facts

Tubers

Crop yield is greatly influenced by plants being able to access the required amount of nutrient. They need to be able to access every nutrient that they require, and in a balanced and timely way.

Providing information so that Farmers and Growers can not only understand a crop’s growth stages, but also the optimum timing periods for fertiliser application, and the product best designed to deliver the best yields and outcomes, is an important focus for RLF.

The Crop Guides Growth Stages information that follows depends wholly on the RLF products identified as being the most appropriate. Our products are based on world-leading science and technology that ensures that nutrients are delivered directly to the plant. By following the regimes recommended by RLF, many benefits can be achieved for Farmers and Growers around the world.

The Fast Facts that accompany this information seek simply to give some quick background perspective to the relevance and the importance of this crop as it plays its part in providing the world with the food that it needs.

  • China is the world’s largest potato-producing country and nearly one-third of the worlds potatoes are harvested in either China or India.
  • Potatoes are the world’s fourth largest food crop following corn, wheat and rice.
  • The annual diet of an average person today includes about 33kg of potato.
  • Potatoes are an essential crop for Europe, where per capita production is still the highest in the world, however the most rapidly expanding markets are in South East Asia.
  • Just over two-thirds of global production is eaten directly by humans with the rest being fed to animals or used to produce starch.

TOP 10 PRODUCERS

  • 1. China
  • 2. India
  • 3. Russia
  • 4. Ukraine
  • 5. United States
  • 6. Germany
  • 7. Bangladesh
  • 8. Poland
  • 9. France
  • 10. Belarus

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Tubers Growth Cycle

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RLF Products

RLF has a range of products that can support the healthy growth of crops, fruits and vegetables. These include products for remediation however more importantly RLF has a series of broad-spectrum high-analysis products that can assure avoidance or reduction of nutrient issue before they occur.
Some RLF products that may help are: