Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Tigoni 2001

Abstract

Food security and poverty alleviation concerns especially after the recent difficulties in maize marketing are increasingly putting the potato into sharp national focus for both food and industrial purposes. The significant increase in the cultivation of the recently released varieties Asante and Tigoni-for supplemental food and cash incomes in traditional maize-growing areas is further evidence of the increasing role of the potato crop. Further development of seed potato multiplication amongst community-based organisations continued to grow throughout the country.