Septembers in Niassa are dry. Warm winds blowing over the Northern Mozambican province send billowing clouds of dust across the land. It is hard to imagine that anything could grow here. Yet the parched earth looks like it is just waiting for the first drops of rainwater to prove its …
Read More »Poster: Sweetpotato Grafting: New approach of vine conservation in dry areas
In the tropics, prolonged droughts damage farm saved stock plants leading to shortage in planting material at the start of the planting season. Despite wide adoption of orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) its sensitivity to drought and poor vegetative growth brought grafting techniques for variety improvement. In this poster Mihiretu reports …
Read More »International Potato Center; Annual Report for the period of June 2012/May 2013
In this report, Luambano reports on International Potato Center (CIP) objective, that sought to build capacity of the orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) implementing agencies in designing and implementing technically strong and cost effective interventions that drive the OFSP uptake.
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