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The potato is the world’s most important nongrain food crop worldwide under Solanaceae family (Sanwen Huang et al., 2011). It is grown in more than 125 countries and consumed almost daily by more than a billion people. Hundreds of millions of people in developing countries depend on potatoes for their survival. Potato cultivation is expanding strongly in the developing world, where the potato’s ease of cultivation and nutritive content has made it a valuable food security and cash crop for millions of farmers. Potato as well as potato products are nowadays are being produced and exported by developing countries. The total world potato production is estimated at 364,808,768 tonnes in 2012 (FAOSTAT, 2012). Information from FAO in 2005 revealed that the production of potato in developing countries surpassed that production in developed countries.

Thinking about the pattern of population development and thusly the expanded interest for sustenance in the nation and diminishing cultivable land area, the potato is prone to assume a crucial part. Potato is a wellknown also, essential vegetable in Bangladesh. For the entirety year, it is utilized as the primary vegetable. Potato generation in Bangladesh in the financial year (FY) 2012-2013, hit another record of 8.603 million tons outperforming the record of 8.38 million tons in FY'11 (Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 2015). Potato has become the third most important food terms of Bangladesh (FAOSTAT, 2012). The crop is widely own across the country in the northwestern region of the country namely Rangpur and Bogra. The weather condition favors potato production but because of the tropical and …