Scaling out aeroponics technology for potato mini tuber production in rwanda

Rwandans eat more than 100 kg of potatoes per capita per year, and the hilly nation has good environments for growing the crop, yet the average yield is less than half what it could be under optimal conditions, in large part because most farmers plant low quality seed potatoes.

The aeroponics technology for potato mini tuber production – a rapid multiplication method in which potato plants’ root systems grow suspended in chambers filled with a nutrient-rich mist – was thus introduced in Rwanda 13 years ago as a solution for the national shortage of quality seed potato.