KwaZulu-Natal 

Table potato production

• Irrigation / dry-land:     
  • 78% of the summer crop and all of the winter crop are irrigated.
• Table and seed potatoes:  
  • The winter crop consists of table potatoes and the summer crop is planted mainly for the production of seed potatoes (about 63% of hectares planted). 
• Planting time:  
  • There are two potato plantings: A winter crop, planted from February to July and a summer crop planted from August to January.
• Marketing period:  
  • The winter crops are marketed from August to February and the summer crop from the end of January to August. 
• Processing:               
  •  Nearly 700 000 x 10kg pockets are processed annually
• Cultivars:  
  • The main cultivars are:  
    • Mondial. 
    • BP1. 
    • Buffelspoort. 
    • Hertha.
    • Darius and
    • Fianna.
  • Other:  
    • The KwaZulu-Natal region being fairly small in comparison with the other potato producing regions, produces a high quality of table and seed potatoes. Annualy about 4 000 ha are planted in KwaZulu-Natal and this region produces almost 16 million 10 kg pockets of potatoes. About 1 600 ha are registered seed plantings.  

Production statistics / produksie statistieke