Potato Yield Gaps in North Korea and Strategies to Close the Gaps
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Yield Data
2.3. Crop Growth Model
2.4. Model Inputs
2.5. Yield Simulations
3. Results
3.1. Yield Simulations
3.2. Model Performance
3.3. Yield Gaps
3.4. Strategies to Close Yield Gaps
4. Discussion
4.1. Early-Season Potatoes
4.2. Main-Season Potatoes
4.3. Other Reducing Factors
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Kim, Y.-U.; Lee, B.-W.; Heu, S.; Shim, K.-B.; Kim, D.-S. Potato Yield Gaps in North Korea and Strategies to Close the Gaps. Agronomy 2020, 10, 1605. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101605
Kim Y-U, Lee B-W, Heu S, Shim K-B, Kim D-S. Potato Yield Gaps in North Korea and Strategies to Close the Gaps. Agronomy. 2020; 10(10):1605. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101605
Chicago/Turabian StyleKim, Yean-Uk, Byun-Woo Lee, Sunggi Heu, Kang-Bo Shim, and Do-Soon Kim. 2020. "Potato Yield Gaps in North Korea and Strategies to Close the Gaps" Agronomy 10, no. 10: 1605. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101605