In 2006, we started with good courage to set up a seed potato company based on the import of containers with Frisian basic seed potatoes, but the fifteen years that followed taught us that the traditional multi-year seed potato field multiplication is not feasible in the Ethiopian setting.

We would like to describe again in the near future how this company has grown rapidly over the years, burned down even faster in 2015, then bounced back and started a innovative concept of seed potato production on a very small scale that fits seamlessly with the Ethiopian challenges

Solagrow, a small company that uses a new manual potato propagation technique to finally provide Ethiopian farmers with healthy and affordable seed potatoes of HZPC varieties.

The story

In 2006, we started with good courage to set up a seed potato company based on the import of containers with Frisian basic seed potatoes, but the fifteen years that followed taught us that the traditional multi-year seed potato field multiplication is not feasible in the Ethiopian setting.

Solagrow, a small company that uses a new manual potato propagation technique to finally provide Ethiopian farmers with healthy and affordable seed potatoes of HZPC varieties.