Emergency Response with Potato and Sweetpotato among drought-affected farmers in SNNPR, Ethiopia
No hay miniatura disponible
Fecha
Autores
Título de la revista
ISSN de la revista
Título del volumen
Editor
Resumen
Descripción
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.
Palabras clave
sweet potatoes