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Consumption of sweet potatoes promoted to combat chronic malnutrition

The production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) is being promoted in Mozambique to tackle the countryâs chronic… problem. According to statistics quoted on Tuesday by the International Potato Centre (CIP), about a quarter of Mozambiqueâs population

May 19, 2016

SweetPotatoes: A Realistic Answer for Nigeria’s Nutrition Crisis

2016-04-04 Nigeria is the second largest producer of sweetpotato in Sub Saharan Africa. Sweetpotato has the ability to thrive in marginal…

May 18, 2016

Catálogo de Papas Nativas de Chugay será presentada en Trujillo

El Gobierno Regional de La Libertad en un trabajo conjunto con el Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria (INIA), el Centro… preparadas en el Laboratorio de Calidad y Nutrición del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) y luego enviadas…

May 18, 2016

CONTEXT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY, AFFORDABLE CASSAVA SEED

2016-05-12 Context Global Development (CGD) has begun work on a new initiative that aims to sustainably improve Nigerian farmers’ access to…

May 13, 2016

Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes Are Transforming This Malawi Community

2016-05-13 In Malawi, farmers are beating hunger and vitamin A deficiency. Go to the article link USAID

May 13, 2016

Drones detect crop stresses more effectively

04/01/2016 Drones can someday serve as a low-cost, effective method of monitoring sweet potato crops, which are becoming increasingly important…

May 5, 2016

Experts link up to improve South Asia’s potatoes

04/29/2016 Go to the article link Eurek Alert

April 29, 2016

La NASA quiere cultivar papas peruanas en su primer viaje a Marte

04/24/2016 Go to the article link

April 27, 2016

Red Planet spuds? NASA really does want to grow potatoes on Mars

04/18/2016 If Mark Watney can do it, hopefully so can NASA. For now, however, the agency will use the Mars-like soil…

April 19, 2016

Consumers of Potato urged to consume of more of Orange flesh Sweet potato

02/27/2016 Consumers of sweet potato are been encourage to consume more of the orange flesh sweet potato as it contains beta…

April 19, 2016

Preparan viaje espacial de la papa hacia Marte

04/15/2016 Experimento. NASA y el CIP realizan pruebas para sembrar el tubérculo en el planeta rojo. Hacen pruebas con tierra del…

April 18, 2016

NASA Really Is Trying to Grow Potatoes on Mars

04/13/2016 PAMPAS DE LA JOYA, Peru—As humans prepare to blast off to Mars, there is still the question of what they’ll…

April 13, 2016

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