Table 4.
Size of potato market segments and potential poverty impact in the pipelines.
| East Africa | LAC | South Asia Lowlands | South Asia Highlands | South East Asia | South Asia | South East Asia | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market Segment (MS) | Table | Dual | Dual | Table | Table | Table | Table | Processing | Processing |
| Value of harvest in million $US | 1,813 | 387 | 2,142 | 1,938 | 736 | 10,534 | 364 | 643 | 27 |
| # of people in MS | 1,111,748 | 243,408 | 177,904 | 177,904 | 1,669,363 | 16,255,257 | 256,552 | 1,274,547 | 29,099 |
| # of poor people in MS | 509,529 | 116,270 | 5,977 | 6,177 | 308,051 | 3,017,424 | 7,163 | 251,315 | 788 |
| Pipelines investments* | 26.27% | 9.59% | 16.98% | 7.85% | 27.18% | 12.13% | |||
| Rank of investment per a million-dollar harvest† | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Rank of $US per person‡ | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Rank of $US per person in poverty‡ | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | |||
Dual, Dual purpose i.e., the potato can be used for both processing and table; MS, market segment.
* Pipeline investments are presented as a percentage of total investment estimates committed to potato breeding pipelines in 2020.
† A pipeline with the lowest investment estimates per million-dollar worth of harvest is ranked #1 while the pipeline with the highest investment estimates per million-dollar worth of harvest is ranked #6.
‡ A pipeline with the highest investment estimates per person or person in poverty is ranked #1 and that with the lowest investment per person or person in poverty is ranked #6.