Fig. 3. A big day! Farmers are very happy with their harvest (courtesy of Marjolein Ebregt) Fig. 4. Resting for a while under a mango tree (courtesy of Erna Abidin) Fig. 5. Moses, with his Araka Red ( ERA007 ) variety on his hand, will be able to go back to his school again (courtesy of Erna Abidin) Most farmers in northeastern Uganda plant sweetpotato for home consumption and/or local market sales. In relatively remote areas, farmers utilize the crop only for home consumption due to lack of transportation to take their produce to the trading centres. Since every household grows sweetpotato, storage roots are abundantly available in the region by the time of the main harvest (in July/August or December/January) 20 . Fig. 6. Resource-poor farmers (courtesy of Marjolein Ebregt) The civil war resulted in severe poverty for farmers in northeastern Uganda while Uganda is already noted as one of the world's poorest and least developed countries 21 . Therefore, lack of capital is commonly experienced in the region. Typically, farmers can only afford to have a hand hoe for cultivating their crops. Consequently, they can not prepare a large area for cropping the sweetpotato, only between 2000 and 4000 square metres per household 20 . Cultural practices like weeding and hilling up of the soils are done only once during the growing season 20,22 . Hence, their fields will look neglected. Nonetheless, farmers give reas ...
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Fig. 3. A big day! Farmers are very happy with their harvest (courtesy of Marjolein Ebregt) Fig. 4. Resting for a while under a mango tree (courtesy of Erna Abidin) Fig. 5. Moses, with his Araka Red ( ERA007 ) variety on his hand, will be able to go back to his school again (courtesy of Erna Abidin) Most farmers in northeastern Uganda plant sweetpotato for home consumption and/or local market sales. In relatively remote areas, farmers utilize the crop only for home consumption due to lack of transportation to take their produce to the trading centres. Since every household grows sweetpotato, storage roots are abundantly available in the region by the time of the main harvest (in July/August or December/January) 20 . Fig. 6. Resource-poor farmers (courtesy of Marjolein Ebregt) The civil war resulted in severe poverty for farmers in northeastern Uganda while Uganda is already noted as one of the world's poorest and least developed countries 21 . Therefore, lack of capital is commonly experienced in the region. Typically, farmers can only afford to have a hand hoe for cultivating their crops. Consequently, they can not prepare a large area for cropping the sweetpotato, only between 2000 and 4000 square metres per household 20 . Cultural practices like weeding and hilling up of the soils are done only once during the growing season 20,22 . Hence, their fields will look neglected. Nonetheless, farmers give reas ...