Abstract

The sweet potato (Ipomea batatas. Lam) is a quick growing high yielding crop grown in a small scale througout the Presidency. Though not an important cash crop, as a combined vegetable and food crop, it is an important supplement to the food supply of the Province. Because of its merits it is grown in all the tropical and extra-tropical regions of the world. The cultivation and technology of the crop are very advanced in other countries e. g. Java, Philippines, Southern United States and West Indies. It has not been intensively studied and its cultivation developed in India, probably due to its low economic status, but is now attracting considerable attention owing to the present food crisis.

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