Ganiyat Olatunde

I did not comment on this topic earlier because I have not been close to farmers and traders of sweetpotato particularly OFSP. My area is post harvest utilization, however, after following comments so far, I thought it may not be out of place to provide the little information I have based on the Rainbow Project in Nigeria which has ended.
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Appreciation to:
Roland from SUSTAIN project in Mozambique; Tawanda, the Food Scientist & Nutritionist from CIP; Francis, Food Scientist & Nutritionist from Ghana; Jean, Food Processor from a private industry in Malawi;………..for your participation and contributions, without which this forum would not have been active.
To our Co-Leaders,…[Read more]

Dear Tawanda, I was just dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s of my report when your contribution came in. It came in handy. I appreciate you for the post and its content because its more like a global view considering it was an outcome of a conference with a status such as that of APA. I believe we will overcome the challenges with time and get…[Read more]

Dear Francis, I felt the knock you gave me by not granting my request (joke). It’s fine and I had gone ahead to prepare the report based on the contributions.

Dear participants, I am sorry I couldn’t continue with the moderation since my last post. I was faced with a terrible life challenge which need not be made public.

This discussion is supposed to have ended by 30th September and I am supposed to have submitted my report by now (mid October).

I am aware that the 3rd discussion topic have been…[Read more]

Thank you all for the contributions so far. Obviously this is a very interesting topic, but beyond this, from the contributions to date, I see prospects for bread making from OFSP Puree. The journey to success (commercial uptake by bakers due to profit advantage and big time consumer demand due to health benefits) may seem far, and the pace slow…[Read more]