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Specialised sweetpotato vine multiplication in Lake Zone, Tanzania: What “sticks” and what changes?.

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Title Specialised sweetpotato vine multiplication in Lake Zone, Tanzania: What “sticks” and what changes?.
 
Creator McEwan, M.
Lusheshanija, D.
Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia
Sindi, K.
 
Subject sweet potatoes
propagation by cuttings
vines
multipliers
 
Description In Lake Zone, Tanzania, farmers were trained to multiply and distribute quality sweetpotato planting material. The objectives of this study were to assess changes in skills and practices among the trained farmers as vine multiplication became a specialized task. Nine months after the project ended, all 88 decentralized vine multipliers (DVMs) operating as groups (72%) or individuals (28%) were visited and qualitative data on their current multiplication practices collected through a questionnaire, checklists and observations. Results showed that 69% of DVMs were still multiplying vines, but less than half were using the seed production technologies promoted by the project. 34% used rapid multiplication beds; 61% used conventional plant spacing on ridges for roots and vines and 5% used both. As the vine multiplication cycle became a specialised activity, the multiplication and root production cycles were separated. Vines were treated differently in terms of site selection, length of cutting and spacing, depending on whether the objective of their use was for high root or high vine production. Capacity building of specialised vine multipliers and scaling-up seed interventions should consider the implications of skilling and task segregation in a broader context based on society’s choice of technologies and agrarian change.
 
Date 2017-02
2017-05-18T19:13:06Z
2017-05-18T19:13:06Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier McEwan, M.A.; Lusheshanija, D.; Shikuku, K.M.; Sindi, K. 2017. Specialised Sweetpotato Vine Multiplication in Lake Zone, Tanzania: What “Sticks” and What Changes?. Open Agriculture. ISSN 2391-9531. 2(1):64-69.
2391-9531
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81127
https://doi.org/10.1515/opag-2017-0007
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 64-69
 
Source Open Agriculture