Willem Dolleman Jr. of Matalai Agrifirm LTD, based in the Iringa area of Tanzania, has joined the Potato Expert Panel by Potatoes.News. His experience connects farm development, seed potato production and work with growers in East Africa.
In the biography he sent to the editorial team, Dolleman traces the start of his potato career to training in 2013 with Agrico in the Netherlands, the Potato Business School and Tolsma on potato cooling technology.
He began working with Agrico in Kenya in 2014, supporting variety registration, introducing farmers to the company’s varieties and helping develop a new potato market. He also managed the setup of Potato Services Africa for Agrico pamwe chete nevanoshanda navo munharaunda.
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Dolleman subsequently spent two years at Sunrise Potato Farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2023 he returned to Africa and settled south of Iringa, where he is developing a seed potato farm intended to supply seed potato growers and ware potato farmers.
He describes the Tanzanian project as being in its development phase. His stated areas of expertise are farm development, the East African potato sector and working with local farmers.
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