Zimbabwe: 68k Households Get Over 3m Sweet Potato Vines

Kutsaga Research has distributed over three million sweet potato plantlets to 68 000 households countrywide since 2021 as it deepens its research mantra into alternative crops apart from tobacco for farmer income diversification.

Statistics released by Kutsaga show that in the 2022/23 sweet potato growing season, Kutsaga distributed 3 457 019 sweet potato seedlings to 68 000 households across the country.

“Of these, 40 percent were biofortified orange-fleshed varieties namely Delvia, Beauregard…