Homa Bay Sweetpotato
Channel: International Potato Center (CIP)
Date: 31/10/2018

Western Kenya including Homa Bay is the largest producer of sweetpotato in Kenya. One of the key challenges to the production of sweetpotato is the unavailability of clean planting material. A significant proportion of sweetpotato seed is found in the informal sector. In 2016 Kenya introduced far-reaching legislation designed to modernize seed systems and markets for an entire range of crops cultivated in the country. This legislation has implications on the participation of men, women and young people in seed businesses. This video provides an opportunity for farmers (men, women and young people), private sector and extension to talk about this issues and discuss how they view the policies and how they are affected by them. Farmers also have an opportunity to discuss among themselves gender related and age related issues in seed businesses and how obstacles and bottleneck can be addressed.


Produced by: Norita Mdege