South Korea: Distribution of unified potato with excellent productivity to local farms

Published 2023년 6월 19일

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A new potato variety called 'Tongil' has been developed by Professor Young-Seok Lim of Kangwon National University in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The new variety, which was announced at a meeting in Boseong, South Jeolla Province, has been under development since 2011 and has been protected as a new variety since last August. The 'Tongil' potato variety has shown to have higher crop yield and disease resistance than existing varieties such as ‘Sumi’, ‘Chubaek’, and ‘Tongil’. The average yield of ‘Tongil’ potatoes is 44.5 tons per hectare, which is nearly twice the yield of ‘Sumi’. The development of this new potato variety is expected to benefit the local potato industry.

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An on-site evaluation meeting for the new potato variety ‘Tongil’ was recently held. Kangwon National University (President Heon-Young Kim) Department of Biomedical Science and Biomedical Science Professor Young-Seok Lim recently unveiled a new 'unified' potato variety in Boseong, South Jeolla Province, with around 70 people attending, including Nam-Jun Byun, head of the Jeonnam-Bo Provincial Unification Potato Association, local farmers, potato-related companies, and local Agricultural Cooperatives. It was announced that an evaluation meeting was held. At the field evaluation meeting, a comparative evaluation was conducted on crop yield, disease resistance, quantity, quality, and taste of the existing major varieties, ‘Sumi’, ‘Chubaek’ and ‘Tongil’. The 'Unification' potato was developed in 2011 by Professor Lim from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (currently the Ministry of Science and ICT) under the 'Development of high-yielding potato variety suitable for ...

Source: Nongmin