The Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods project was started in Rwanda in 2010 to support farmers growing orange-fleshed sweetpotato and to promote products made from sweetpotato such as bread and mandazi. It is part of the bigger SASHA project led by the International Potato Center (CIP) working in ten different countries. Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) provides farmers with new clean sweetpotato plan
ting material and in partnership with CIP has introduced new orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) working with its partners IMBARAGA and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) supports and trains farmers in growing and processing sweetpotato. Urwibutso (SINA) Enterprises is the main processor working with the project. The firm provides a ready market for the sweetpotato roots produced by the project farmer groups and its own contracted farmers. Umushinga Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods ukorera mu Rwanda kuva mu mwaka wa 2010 ukaba ugamije gufasha abahinzi b’ibijumba kubihinga neza ndetse no guteza imbere umusaruro wabyo bawubyazamo imigati,amandazi n’ibindi. Ni umwe mu mishinga minini ya SASHA umushinga ukorera mu bihugu 10 ukaba uyobowe n’ikigo mpuzamahanga giteza imbere ubuhinzi bw’Ibijumba cyitwa (CIP). Uyu mushinga ukorana n’abahinzi b’Ibijumba ubinyujije mu bafatanyabikorwa batandukanye nk’Ikigo cy’Igihugu gishinzwe guteza imbere ubuhinzi(RAB), gifasha abahinzi kubona imbuto nziza zitandukanye z’imigozi. Ufatanya kandi n’abandi bafatanyabikorwa basanzwe bakorana n’abahinzi nka CRS, Urugaga IMBARAGA na YWCA mu rwego rwo guhugura abahinzi mu bijyanye no kongera umusaruro ndetse no kuwukoramo ubwoko bw’ibyo kurya bitandukanye. Kugeza ubu ku isonga mu gora no kwamamaza ibyo kurya bitandukanye bituruka ku musaruro w’ibijumba hari Uruganda rwa NYIRANGARAMA (SINA).
