Abstract
The International Potato Center (CIP) and its partners undertook a 25-30-year study on using potato’s botanical seed as a substitute
technique of developing potato harvest. The benefits of using botanical or ‘true’ potato seed (TPS) instead of the seed tubers are
several. TPS has the potential to appeal to small-scale farmers in underdeveloped nations particularly. In numerous ways, using TPS
instead of seed tubers forced developing a new chain of the crop-commodity, needing research in seed processing, breeding, marketing,
and agronomy. Through addressing some critical limits in TPS variety uniformity and earliness, along with seed physiology, this
study enabled commercial-scale potato production from TPS. Experimentation and farmer adoption in various regions demonstrated
that the technical benefits related to TPS just translated into cost savings over tuber seed, which has been either unavailable or too
expensive. TPS is a possible alternative because the economic efficiency of the seed tubers is projected to fluctuate in future. Researchers
may be able to learn more about the factors which stimulate or inhibit the innovation of the crop technology by looking at
how TPS is used in many nations. The study provides an overview of the variety of the disciplines of TPS researches in the CIP, along
with information on how the TPS technology is used in a number of advanced nations.