potato farming
Growing starchy roots
Potato farming is the agricultural practice of growing potatoes as a crop.
The term encompasses everything from small-scale garden cultivation to large commercial operations: Her family has been in potato farming for three generations.
Major potato-farming regions include Idaho, Ireland, and Peru, where the crop originated.
- curing processMethod to harden materials
- pest managementControlling harmful organisms
- plowTool for turning soil
- irrigation systemsFarm water distribution infrastructure
- heirloom varietiesTraditional, non-hybrid plant strains
cash crop · harvester · pH balance · hilling · disease resistance · blight · late blight · eyes · planting season · crop rotation · chitting · intercropping · Snake River · erosion control · sorting machines · burlap sacks · root cellar · composting
- tuber farmingcassava, seed potatoes
- Northern MaineCaribou, Van Buren, Ashland, Stockholm, Washburn
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, crop yields
- European farmingdairy farms, olive groves, wheat fields, vineyards, wine regions
- IdahoBoise, Pocatello, Twin Falls, Lewiston, potatoes
- Long IslandLong Island, Huntington, Hempstead, Montauk, Babylon
potato farminggrain production
Cultivating edible seed crops
wheat farming · rice cultivation · corn farming · viticulture · cotton farming
potato farmingcattle ranching
Raising bovines commercially
livestock farming · animal husbandry · dairy farming · sheep herding · poultry farming
potato farmingfactory work
Employment in manufacturing facilities
industrial production · office work · service industry · banking · retail trade