date:Sep 30, 2020
North Carolina researchers have determined a post-harvest treatment that significantly reduces crop loss due to internal necrosis in Covington sweet potatoes. As about 90% of North Carolinas sweet potatoes are of the Covington variety, this treatment will save the states sweet potato producers millions of dollars.
Internal necrosis was becoming a big issue in the industry, so the Sweet Potato Commission decided we needed a task force to look at this from across the college, said David Godwin, a