Daily Monitor
Saturday March 06 2021
Cakes and chapattis made out of bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes on display at a farmers’ field day. PHOTOs/Michael J Ssali
Summary
Joseph Kasekende who is now recognised orange fleshed bio-fortified sweet potato vines multiplier in the entire region takes credit for introducing bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes in the area.
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Growing bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes is a major source of income and nutritional food for scores of households in Binyonyi Village, Kalisizo Rural Sub-county, Kyotera District and even beyond.
Ms Justine Ssenyomo, chairperson of Good Life, a women’s group of farmers that grow bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes at Binyonyi and the neighbouring villages, said since 2017 untill early last year when Covid-19 broke out, the group members have been earning money every week by selling the potatoes to schools and to an exporter who took them to Dubai. Ssenyomo f