Cultivation practices with sweet potato

Abstract

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is the major crop of subsistence gardeners in the Highlands and is also important as a cash crop, particularly for rations for plantation and Administration workers. Work has been carried out at the Highlands Agricultural Experiment
Station, Aiyura, to determine whether some cultivation techniques are superior to others, irrespective of the variety of sweet potato used and of soil variations and climate differences in the Highlands.