A Review of Production, Post-harvest Handling and Marketing of Sweetpotatoes in Kenya and Uganda
| Autor: | George Abong, Victoria Ndanyi, Archileo Kaaya, Solomon Shibairo, Michael Okoth, Peter Obimbo, Nicanor Odongo, Elizabeth Wanjekeche, Joseph Mulindwa, Peter Sopade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
030109 nutrition & dietetics business.industry Cash crop Medicine (miscellaneous) Subsistence agriculture 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Raw material 040401 food science Crop 03 medical and health sciences 0404 agricultural biotechnology Postharvest Production (economics) Livestock Cultivar Marketing business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science Journal. 4:162-181 |
| ISSN: | 2322-0007 2347-467X |
| DOI: | 10.12944/crnfsj.4.3.03 |
| Popis: | 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 under exploited 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, post harvest handling practices, marketing, and physicochemical and nutritional properties of sweet potatoes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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