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    A review of production, post-harvest handling and marketing of sweetpotatoes in Kenya and Uganda
    (Enviro Research Publishers, 2016-11-16) Abong, GO.; Ndanyi, VCM.; Kaaya, A.; Shibairo, Solomon I.; Okoth, Michael Wandayi; Lamuka, Peter Obimbo
    Sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas) is a versatile crop that serves the roles of food and nutrition security, cash crop in both raw and processed forms. It is a source of livestock feed and has great potential as a raw material for industrial processing. The potential of sweetpotato has been greatly underexploited by the fact that it has been regarded as a poor man’s food and is mainly grown under marginal conditions for subsistence by most producers, who are rural small-scale farmers in developing countries, such as Kenya and Uganda. Losses in the highly perishable root crop and its leaves are exacerbated by lack of appropriate postharvest knowledge, technologies and facilities. Inadequate information on available cultivars also limits the maximum utilization of the crop and leaves. The current review examines production potential, postharvest handling practices, marketing, and physicochemical and nutritional properties of sweetpotatoes.