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SAND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

Sweetpotato roots can be stored in dry sand for 4 months. The structured container can be as a stepped-pit and/or sandbox. The fresh roots as for food and the sprouted roots for vine production. It is useful for rural families living in the drought-prone areas, in SSA and elsewhere. The sand storage technology mentioned here is an innovative package of technologies comprising 3 technologies: (i) orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) fresh roots or other flesh colour types, but we need to measure its storage ability before storing them; (ii) good agricultural practices (GAPs), for its protocol; as we need to select clean and disease-free planting material to produce good quality roots before storing it in the sand technique; and (iii) sand storage technique; the protocol for sand storage structure, can be found here). The innovative package of technologies were introduced by CIP led project funded by USAID-OFDA in Ghana, Burkina Faso and early in Malawi. Please click here to access to a link for the early research findings and also click here; and here for further research outcomes and findings.