Abstract            Volume:11  Issue-7  Year-2023         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) serves as a food security crop in Ethiopia. However, its yield is constrained by a number of factors. Lack of quality seed, disease prevalence, unaffordable price of fertilizer, and use of slapdash seed tuber size by farmers are among the contributors to the low yield of the crop in the study area. The objective of this study was, to assess the constraints of potato production on yield. Accordingly, household survey was carried out in three districts of north Shewa zone namely Degem, Girar Jarso and Debrelibanos and nine total kebeles. The SPSS version 20 was used to analyze survey data. Regression analysis indicated that potato production was positively and significantly affected by family size, selection of tuber size, inflorescence removal, education level and production experience whereas land hold size have a negative and significant effect on potato production. The results of this study showed that potato production is constrained by a number of factors namely Insufficient high-quality seed, disease prevalence, a lack of inflorescence removal, a lack of fertilizer, and a lack of knowledge about potato production systems were the five major constraints challenging potato production in the study area, according to the index ranking method.

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