Working Document Series Open Access Factors affecting sweetpotato production and soil fertility challenges among smallholder farmers in Kenya Carolyne Jepkemboi · S.J. Kebeney · J.K. Kitilit Sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas) is an important food crop in Kenya, but farmers experience low production and thus their food and income security is threatened. This study was done to document factors affecting sweetpotato production and soil… RUF-37016 2016 CC BY 4.0 18 Sep 2017
Working Document Series Open Access Enhancing sweetpotato resistance to African weevils (Cylas puncticollis and Cylas brunneus) through transgenic breeding J. F. Kreuze · S.B. Mukasa · R.J. Rukarwa Sweetpotato production is greatly constrained by two weevil species; Cylas puncticollis and C. brunneus that cause yield losses of up to 80%. The use of resistant sweetpotato cultivars is the most sustainable strategy to control the weevil… RUF-34519 2010 CC BY 4.0 25 Aug 2015
