Significance of Potato Crop
Significance of Potato Crop Potato is India’s fourth growing consumable and commercial crop where wheat, rice and corn are grown as the first preference. Because the potato consumes less water and uses less land than any other significant food crop, cultivation is highly sustainable. As a result, the potatoes significance is growing on a global scale that can only be compared to rice, wheat, and maize in terms of its contribution to securing food and nutrition . From the 17th century in India, the potato has been started to cultivated and it is going to add minerals, vitamin B and vitamin C to the diet . The fungal and viral have an affinity towards infecting the potato. As per the author suggestions, there are more than 30 viruses to infect the potato. The less frequently a virus interacts with the host's foliar and tuber sections, and less the virus spreads from previously cultivated plants and seasonal changes, the less likely to cause an infection. But the infection goes...