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Working with farmers to control sweet potato virus disease in East Africa
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Publication date
27/03/2006
Number of Pages
53
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Studies
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk coping
Commodity:
Crops
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Output/182534/Default.aspx
Author
Richard Gibson, Richard Gibson
Organization
Natural Resources Institute,
Sweet potato virus diseases (SPVD) are an important biotic constraint to sweet potato production in parts of East Africa. Technologies consisting of participatory selection procedures and an IPM package were developed to improve the performance and farmer-acceptability of locally selected sweet potato clones resistant to SPVD, and these have been validated in Uganda and Tanzania. Procedures were put in place for improved planting materials to be made more widely available via the CIP network in East Africa.