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Table 7 Major potato production constraint in the area

From: Assessment of production practices of smallholder potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) farmers in Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia

Constraints

Priority ranking

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

Index

Rank

Lack of access to credit

27

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

0.0914

6

Lack of yielding cultivars

14

7

5

3

1

0

0

0

0.0793

7

Insufficient seed tubers

18

11

4

2

2

1

1

0

0.1012

4

Diseases

29

23

20

19

14

13

7

0

0.2708

1

Storage problem

23

17

14

10

7

6

2

1

0.1843

2

Low market price

42

11

6

0

0

0

0

0

0.1696

3

Soil degradation

3

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.0117

8

Lack of agrochemicals

20

11

1

0

0

0

0

0

0.0918

5

Total

176

83

52

34

24

20

10

1