Temperature and its effect on the potato crop in Iraq

Abstract

Temperature is one of the most important climatic elements that directly and effectively affect the life of agricultural crops because it determines the appropriate areas for growing crops in addition to determining the time of planting for all crops and their maturity during the year, as each agricultural crop has thermal limits within which it grows. Its cultivation is successful and its production costs are economic, but when the thermal conditions are not appropriate, its cultivation is expensive due to the need to find thermal conditions capable of filling the crop’s need for heat in order to help the crop carry out the necessary operations for the crop from the first stage to the last stages of the crop, which is maturity.