The Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/2017, and improve household food and nutrition security. From June 2016 to June 2018, 13,000 direct benefi ciary farmers and over 5,500 indirect benefi ciary farmers got orange-fl eshed sweetpotato (OFSP) vine cuttings, produced over 5,000 metric tons of OFSP roots, and trained 133 crop and nutrition experts and 37,651 farmers on sweetpotato agronomy and nutrition.
Authors: Berga Lemaga, Mereseit Hadush, Wakene Tigre, Tefera Zerfu
Pages: 2
Publication Date: September 26, 2018
Identifier: SPHI
Keywords: Drought, Drought resilient sweetpotato, drought-affected farmers, Emergency response, Ethiopia, Potato, SNNPR, SPHI, SPHI 2018, SPHI Brief