Sugarcane Research Institute - Kibaha

to increase sweet potato production, consumption and enhance nutritional status by smallholder farmers in Tanzania and Uganda through timely access to preferred and improved varieties of sweetpotato. It will pilot the use of rural school-going children as modes to fast-track introduction of improved varieties in their communities, especially women farmers. Students will receive agronomy and nutritional education using orange fleshed sweetpotato as an entry point, and then given small bundles of vines of the promoted varieties to take to their mothers for planting