Potato is the largest non-grain food crop of the world being consumed by 1 billion people worldwide. In recent times, there has been a geographical shift in the production pattern of Potato. From being the staple diet of Europe alone, Potato has made major strides into the food habits of the peoples of the Asian continent in general and the Indian Sub-continent in particular.

In the South Asian context, potato has been gaining prominence as an important source of food for the growing populations of the region.

With an area of 1.40 million hectares and an annual production of 27 million tons, India is a major potato-producing nation of the world, accounting for almost 9% of the world production.

In the South Asian region Potato is a major cash crop. However fragmentation of land holdings and rising input costs have compelled farmers to look for opportunities to increase unit productivity.

Typically Seed costs alone, account for 50% of the inputs in a Potato crop and while the farmer has a level of control in the volume of inputs he utilises and the farm practices he adopts, it is critically important for him to ensure that he uses high quality seed since this is the basic factor in raising a successful crop.

Hence it becomes imperative to adopt high quality - high yielding Seed Potato to increase per unit productivity. This is where enabling technologies such as Technico's multi award winning; proprietary TECHNITUBER^® technology has had a major impact in delivering Early Generation Seed Potato to farmers and industry across the globe.

Technico has the world's largest TECHNITUBER^® facility in India, to meet the challenges of providing high-quality early generation Seed Potato at an affordable cost to the farmer and the industry.