@TeamGT4SP

Our project is focused on developing a set of “next generation” breeder tools for African sweetpotato breeders in Africa.

sweetpotatogenomics.cals.ncsu.edu/
Joined September 2015
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BUSINESS INTERVIEW: THIS RWANDAN COMPANY MAKES PASTRIES FROM SWEET POTATOES via @oursweetpotato sweetpotatoknowledge.org/?p=…
news.ncsu.edu/2019/04/sweet-…

Can Sweet Potatoes Save the World?

A well-bred superfood goes global, thanks to NC State.

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Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives - International Potato Center cipotato.org/blog/harnessing…
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Mak, NC State and Regional Universities to Collaborate in Research shar.es/amJqnl
Mak, NC State and Regional Universities to Collaborate in Research shar.es/amJ2P0
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Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives - International Potato Center cipotato.org/blog/harnessing…
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go.ncsu.edu/ncstatemag.winte… check out the feature on us in @NCState Alumni magazine
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intlpag.org/2019/ Working hard at the annual PAG Conference. @Cipotato @Nacrri_ug
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Celebrating many accomplishments for 2018. Forging ahead to 2019.
sweetpotatoknowledge@oursweetpotato24 Dec 2018
CELEBRATING THE 2018 ACHIEVEMENTS - mailchi.mp/78dfabbbde75/cele…
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Do you know where your #food comes from? These @NCStateHort students sure do. 📹: @NCStateSustain
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‘A lot of uncertainty’; NC sweet potato farmers anxious about what Florence did to this year’s crop newsobserver.com/news/busine…

NC supplies the nation’s sweet potatoes. Florence has put this year’s crop in doubt.

North Carolina growers lost 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs to Hurricane Florence, but farmers don’t yet know the extent of damage done to crops such as tobacco, corn, soybeans,...

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Ted, Erna and Jan are interacting with the Veggie and Fruit folks at the International Horticultural Congress in Istanbul. Lots of good info on irrigation, postharvest, and farmer organizing research. 1400 participants; 90 countries @oursweetpotato ; @Cipotato ;@RichInVitA
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All these Sweet Potato products from @Nacrri_ug are available at the NARO Village at the #AgricshowUG2018. #NARO4Devt @Charlie_Kemi @MAAIF_Uganda @UgandaMediaCent
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The 17th Sweetpotato SpeedBreeders and Genomics Community of Practice meeting in Nairobi, Kenya via @oursweetpotato sweetpotatoknowledge.org/?p=…
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'Triple S' is facilitating orange-fleshed #sweetpotato production in extremely dry areas of #Ethiopia and other countries in #Africa where the dry season can last as long as nine months. xitter.cf/CGIAR/status/101149683… #OFSP #Zerohunger
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Researchers at @Cipotato are promoting a practice called 'Triple S' that allows #farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to produce their own #sweetpotato vines in time for the planting season, allowing them to plant and harvest earlier @RTB_CGIAR on.cgiar.org/2lv1kw1
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For a country like #Uganda where the #agriculture sector employs 70% of the population (85%of the popn are youth) and contributes 23% of the #GDP, it is only a matter of time before most farmers probably today's youth will be globally connected for #markets. #AgricResearch
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Can you tell the team ❤️ #orange-fleshed #sweetpotato? #OFSP #breeders #Africa
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