10th Triennial African Potato Conference
October 9th to 13th, 2016
Tentative Conference Program for General and Parallel Sessions
Sunday 9 October 2016: Arrival of Participants
Pre-registration at UNECA Conference Center
Setup of exhibit booths and posters
Day 1
Monday 10 October 2016
07:00 – 9:00
Registration
Opening Session
9:00 - 9:20
Welcome Remark and Conference Overview: Dr. Endale Gebre, President of APA
9:20 - 9:25
Welcome Remark by CIP Ethiopia: Dr Shawkat Begum, CIP-Ethiopia Director
9:25 - 9:30
Welcome Speech: His Excellency Dr Fentahun Mengistu, Director General, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research(EIAR)
9:30 - 9:40
General Session - I :
Official Opening: His Excellency Mr Tefera Deribew, Minister, Ministry of Agriculture & Natural Resources
ChairPerson: Dr Fentahun Mengistu Rapporteur: Dr Tesfaye Desta
Keynote Speech- I:– Food Security, Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Technology Adoption: The Stake of Potato and Sweetpotato in Ethiopia
- Dr. Demese Chanyalew and Dr. Chilot Yirga
9:40 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:15
11:15 -11: 45
11 : 45 – 12 : 15
12:15- 13:00
13: 00 - 14:00
Coffee / Tea and Group Photo
Official Opening of Poster session/exhibition
Keynote Speech - II : Roots, Tubers and Bananas: Planning for Climate Resilience - Dr. Graham Thiele
Keynote Speech- III: Towards Zero-Fungicide Genetically Modified Potatoes for Africa - Dr. Andrew Kiggundu
Plenary Discussion on the three Keynotes presented
Lunch at UNECA
Break out for Parallel Session- I
Chairperson: Craig Yancho
Rapporteur: Godwill
Makunde
Theme 1: Breeding,
Germplasm exchange &
trade
Chairperson: Anna-Marie
Ball
Rapporteur: Wellington
Jogo
Theme 2: Nutrition,
Health & Technology
Adoption
Chairperson: Oscar Ortiz
Rapporteur: Bruce
Ochieng
Theme 3: Seed &
Cropping Systems
Chairperson: Monika
Parker
Rapporteur: Mihitrtu
Cherinet
Theme 4: Climate Change
Adaptation & mitigation
Venue: Conference
Room 2
Venue: Small Briefing
Room
Chairperson: Christopher
Tanku
Rapporteur: Joyce Malinga
Theme 5: Opportunities &
Challenges of Private
Sector
Venue: Caucus Room 10
Venue: Large Briefing
Room
Sub Theme 1: Germplasm
conservation and exchangeBasis for sustainable and
effective improvement in
potato and sweet potato
Venue: Caucus Room 11
Sub Theme 1: Potato and
Sweetpotato for health,
nutrition and food
security
Sub Theme1 :
Potato and Sweetpotato
seed systems
Sub Theme 1: Developing
adaptation and mitigation
strategies in anticipation
of increased climate
change
Sub Theme 1: Marketing
and value chain
development
14:00 – 14:15
Heritability For Yield and
Glycoalkaloids Content
Under Heat Stress In Potato
Clones with Heat
Tolerance, Late Blight And
Virus Resistance
Manuel Gastelo
Benavides,CIP Peru
Comparative Studies on
Sources of Sweetpotato
Planting Material For
Quality Vines And Root
Yield In Ghana
Putri E.Abidin, CIP Ghana
Perceptions of Climate
Change and Adaptation
Strategies Among
Sweetpotato Farmers In
Kwara State, Northcentral
Nigeria
Abraham Falola, University
of Ilorin, Nigeria
Assessing Sweetpotato
Market Structure In
Nasarawa State And FCT,
Nigeria
Mercy Ejechi, National
Research Crop Institute,
Nigeria
14:15-14:30
Assessment of Genetic
Diversity and Relationships
of Nitrogen Use Efficiency
and Related Traits In Potato
(Solanum tuberosum)
Yield and Nutrition
Quality Stability of
Orange-Fleshed
Sweetpotato Cultivars
Across Different
Harvesting Periods,
Mozambique
Abilio Alvaro, CIP
Mozambique
Enhancing Household
Animal Protein
Consumption Through
Sweetpotato In Nigeria
Chioma Ekwe, National
Root Crop Research
Determination of
Nutrient Solutions for
Potato (Solanum
tuberosum L.) Seed
Production Under
Assessment of CIP Bred
Clones for Expansion of
Potato Production In the
Coastal Areas of
Bangladesh
Inadequate Policy and
Challenges Facing
Regulations
Implementation In Potato
Subsector In Kenya
Under Contrasting N
Regimes
Getahun Baye, Amhara
Agricultural Research
Institute, Ethiopia
14:30-14:45
14:45-15:00
Discussion
15.00 to 15.30
Coffee break
Chairperson: Ted. Carey
Rapporteur: Jude Njoku
15:30-15:45
Sub Theme 2: Improvement
of potato and Sweetpotato
for wider adaptation
Participatory Variety
Selection: A Tool to
Understand Farmers'
Potato Variety Selection
Criteria
Institute, Umudike,
Nigeria
Aeroponics Production
System
Lemma Tessema,
Holetta Agricultural
Research Center,
Ethiopia
Sweetpotato Peel: A
Maize and Potato
Potential Source of
Intercropping: A
Dietary Fiber in Wheat
Technology to Increase
and Pearl Millet
Productivity and
Composite Bread
Profitability In Tigray
Beyenesh Zemichael,
Omoba Olufunmilayo,
Tigray Agricultural
Federal University of
Research Institute,
Technology, Akure, Nigera Ethiopia
Discussion
Discussion
Abdullah-Al Mahmud, CIP
Bangladesh
Sarah M. Kuria, National
Potato Council, Kenya
Adaptation to Mid-Season
Drought in A Sweetpotato
(Ipomoea batatas L [Lam])
Germplasm Collection
Grown In Mozambique
Godwill S. Makunde,
CIP Mozambique
Postharvest Management
Practices and Market
Performance Along Ware
Potato Value Chains in
Eastern Uganda
Caroline Nabukeera,
Makerere University,
Uganda
Discussion
Discussion
Chairperson: Robert
Ackatia-Armah
Rapporteur: Christine
Bukania
Mineral Bio-fortified
Potato to Help Overcome
Micronutrient
Malnutrition in EastAfrica
Thomas zum Felde,
CIP Peru
Chairperson: Hugo
Campos
Rapporteur: Daniel
Akansake
Evaluation of Heat and
Drought Tolerance of CIP
Potato Clones in Kenya
Daniel Mbiri,
CIP Kenya
Chairperson: Ibok Oduoro
Sweetpotato: Dinah Borus
Chairperson: Ian Barker
Rapporteur: Rogers
Kakuhenzire
Testing “Triple S” in A
New Context:
Sweetpotato Planting
Material Conservation
Over The Long Dry
Period of Ethiopia
Mihertu Cherinet,
CIP Ethiopia
The Market Potential for
Sweetpotato Pre-Basic and
Basic Seed in Eastern and
Southern Africa
Srinivasulu Rajendran,
CIP Kenya
15:45-16:00
Semagn Asredie, Amhara
Agricultural Research
Institute, Ethiopia
First Release of Orange
Flesh Sweetpotato Through
On-Farm Demonstration
With Women in the North
and Northeast of Cote
d’Ivoire
Konan Dibi, CRNA, Cote
d’Ivoire
16:00-16:15
Performance of Arc
Informal Market
Sweetpotato Cultivars in
On-Farm Trials
Sunette M. Laurie,
Agricultural Research
Center,
South Africa
16:15-16:30
16:30-16:45
Discussion
Genetic Diversity
Assessment of Tanzanian
Sweetpotato Genotypes
Using Simple Sequence
Repeat Markers
Sub Theme 2:
Technology adoption
OFSP Adoption Improved
Dietary Quality:
Evidence from Women
and Children in Western
Kenya
Temesgen Bocher,
CIP Kenya
Upscaling Potato
Production Enterprise
Through the Use of
Nicola Variety in JosPlateau, Nigeria
Kennth Ekwe,
Michael Okpara University
of Agriculture, Umudike,
Nigeria
Determinants and Effect
of Quality Seed Potato
Use by Smallholder
Farmers: The Case of
Seed From Kisima Farm
– Kenya
Julius Okello Juma,
CIP Kenya
In Vitro Screening of
Potato (Solanum
tuberosum L.) Genotypes
for Osmotic Stress
Tolerance
Dandena Soboka,
Haramaya University,
Ethiopia
Modernization Options for
Increased Yield, Income
and Food Security in the
Potato Value Chain in
Kenya
Meshack Ronoh, GIZ, Kenya
Suitable Dual Purpose
Sweetpotato Varieties
and Management of
Their Vines in Uganda
Gerland Kyalo,
CIP Uganda
Sustainable Potato Pest
Management in Africa
Under Current and Future
Climates
Juergen Kroschel,
CIP Peru
Discussion
Influence of Seed Sources
on Varietal Adoption
Behavior By Sweetpotato
Farmers In the Bomet
and Nakuru Counties of
Kenya
Discussion
Specialized Sweetpotato
Vine Multiplication in
Lake Zone, Tanzania:
What sticks and What
Changes?
Discussion
Potential Establishment of
Hymenopteran
Parasitoids for Classical
Biocontrol of The Leaf
miner Fly Liriomyza
huidobrensis (Blanchard)
Sub Theme 2: Value
addition through projected
demand analysis of
business opportunities
Silage Based Diets:
An Investment
Opportunity to Address
Challenges in The
Sweetpotato and Pig Value
Chains in Uganda
Marsy Asindu, Makarere
University, Uganda
Discussion
Evaluation of suitability of
Substituting Wheat Flour
with Sweetpotato and
Tiger Nut Flours in Bread
Making
Stephan E. Ngailo,
Sugarcane Research
Institute, Tanzania
16:45-17:00
Overview of Potato
Breeding In Kenya For
Accelerated Impact:
Progress And Prospect
Abigail Ngugi,
CIP Kenya
17:00-17:15
Anna Gichangi , Kenya
Agricultural And Livestock
Research Organization,
Kenya
Does Nutrition behavior
change approaches for
Agriculture-Nutrition
Intervention: Experiences
and lessons from
Ethiopia
Mariama
Fofana/Wellington Jogo,
CIP Ethiopia
Analysis of Preferences,
Perceived Barriers, and
Factors Influencing
Potato (Solanum
tuberusom L.)
Consumption by
Households in Jos Nigeria
Dr Lenka, National Root
Crops Research Institute
Umudike, Nigeria
17:15-17:30
Discussion
18:30
Day 2
Reception at UNECA
Tuesday 11 October 2016
Discussion
Margaret Anne McEwan
CIP Kenya
in Potato-Based Cropping
Systems in Africa
Norma Mujica,
CIP Peru
Effect of DormancyA Temperature-Based
Breaking Methods on
Phenology Model for
Seed Tuber Sprouting
Predicting the
and Subsequent Tuber
Development, Fecundity,
Yield of Potato (Solanum and Life Table Parameters
tuberosum L.) Cultivars
of the African
Dandena Gelmesa,
Sweetpotato Weevil,
Haramaya University,
Cylas puncticollis
Ethiopia
Joshua S. Okonya,
CIP Uganda
Vine Survival of
Sub Theme 2:
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea
Farming systems towards
batatas L [Lam])
climate resilient
Cultivars Subjected to
agriculture
Long Dry Spells After the Structure of Sweetpotato
Growing Season in
(Ipomoea batatas)
Mozambique
Diversity in West Africa is
Maria Vaz de Andrade,
Partly Explained by a
CIP
Climatic Gradient
Mozambique/Edward
Kodjo Glato, University of
Carey, CIP Ghana
Togo
Discussion
Discussion
Chinelo Vanessa Ezeocha,
Michael Okpara University
of Agriculture, Umudike,
Nigeria
Projecting Demand for
Potatoes For Processing into Crisp And Ready-Cut
Chips: Business
Opportunities For Seed
Companies and Potato
Farmers
Wachira Kaguongo ,
National Potato Council of
Kenya
From Lab to Life: Making
Storable Orange-Fleshed
Sweetpotato Pure a
Commercial Reality
Jan Low/Penina Mukoi, CIP
Kenya
Discussion
General Session – II Chairperson: Elmar Schulte Geldermann. Rapporteur: Julius Okello, Uganda
7:30- 8:00
Key note speech- IV: Netherlands Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Aimed At Co-Innovation In The Potato Value Chain In Emerging Markets Prof. Anton J. Haverkort, Netherlands
8:30 – 9 :00
9.00 - 9 : 30
9:00-9:15
Key note speech- V: Farmer perceptions, adoption and effects of quality seed potato in Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic, social and gender
perspective – Dr. Julius Okello
Key note speech- VI: Uptake, Adaptation and Output from Accelerated Breeding Programs for Sweetpotato in SSA - Dr. Carey, E.
Plenary Discussion on the three keynote papers
Break out for Parallel Session: II
Chairperson: Merideth
Bonierbale
Rapporteur: Abigail Ngugi
Chairperson: Ali
Mohamed
Rapporteur: Haile Tesfay
9:15-9:30
Sub Theme 3:
Germplasm Exchange and
trade in changing policy
Environment
Screening Cold Tolerant
Dual Purpose Sweetpotato
In Kenya
Benjamin M. Kivuva, Kenya
Agricultural and Livestock
Research Organization
9:30-9:45
Hybrid Potato Breeding for
Africa
Pim Lindhout, Solynta
Wageningen,
The Netherlands
Sub Theme 3: Processing
and Value Addition
Retention of Zinc, Iron
And Vitamin A in Highland
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea
batatas) Varieties After
Different Cooking
Methods in Kenya
John N. Ng'ang'a, Kenya
Agricultural and Livestock
Research Organization
Evaluation of In-Ground
Curing and Storage
Methods of Sweetpotato
Fresh Roots In the
Rainforest Zones of
Nigeria
Jude Njoku, National Root
Crops Research Institute,
Umudike Nigeria
Chairperson: Margaret
McEwan
Rapporteur: Sam
Namanda
Sub Theme 2: Potato
and Sweetpotato
cropping systems
Evaluating the Potential
of Some Sweetpotato
Cultivars to Yield Both
Roots and Vines in
Drought Prone Parts of
Ghana
Edward E. Carey,
CIP Ghana
Response of Medium
and Late Maturing
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea
batatas L.) Varieties to
Application of N and P
Fertilizers in Halaba
Area of Ethiopia
Danielmarkos Bura,
Southern Agricultural
Research Institute
Ethiopia
Chairperson: Steffen
Schulz
Rapporteur:
Gebremedhin W.Giorgis
Integrated Soil-Water
and Nutrient
Management Options
Use in Potato Production
Among Smallholder
Farmers for Adaptation
to Climate Change Effects
Moses W. Munthali,
Dept. of Agricultural
Research Services, Malawi
Chairperson: Chilot Yiorga
Rapporteur: Shira Kaguango
Interacting Effects of The
Farming Practices and
Climate Change
(Variability) on the
Dynamic of the
Population Density of
Sweetpotato Pests and
on the Resultant Amount
of the Viral Diseases
Pressures in Eastern
Scope for Food Processing
Industries To Boost Global
Economy by Means of
Potato Value Addition: A
Review
Economics of Improved
Agronomic Practices and
Mechanization in Potato
Production in Kenya:
Opportunities and
Challenges for Private
Sector Investments
Charity M. Maina, National
Potato Council of Kenya
Selvamuthukumaran
Meenakshisundaram,
Ethiopia
OfDR Congo: Preliminary
Observations
Theodore Munyuli,
Department of Biology
and Agriculture, National
Natural Science Research
Center, Bukavu, DR Congo
9:45-10:00
Bridging the Potato Variety
Gap: The Case of the
Netherlands- Kenya Potato
Project
Simeon K. Komen, Kenya
Plant Health Inspectorate
Service
10:00-10:10
10:10 – 10:30
Discussion
Coffee Break
Optimization of
Preparation of ProVitamin A Rich Snacks
Made with OFSP, Okra
and Maize Flours by
Simplex Centroid Design
Rachel M. Omodamiro,
National Root Crops
Research Institute,
Umudike, Nigeria
The Informal
Sweetpotato Seed
System as the Driver of
Improved Crop
Production: A bottomUp Approach
Richard W. Gibson,
Natural Resources
Institute, UK
Sub Theme 3:
Gender Sensitive
intervention
Gender-Sensitive
Agricultural Intervention
Improved Profit Efficiency
Among Orange-Fleshed
Sweetpotato Producers In
Rwanda
Temesgen Bocher,
CIP Kenya
Break out for Parallel Session: II continued
Chairperson: Christine
Gebhardt
Rapporteur: Britta Kowalskis
10:30 -10:45
Sub Theme 4:
Genetic improvement for
quality and stress tolerance
biotic and abiotic
Genetic Variability for Yield,
Yield Related Traits and
Chairperson: Francis
Amagloh
Rapporteur: Eric Derys
Chairperson: Berga
Lemaga
Rapporteur: Dinah
Borus
Vacuum Frying Process:
Influence of
Viable Pathway Towards
Sweetpotato Cultivars
Availability of Healthy and on Establishment,
Nutritious Fried
Number of Leaves,
Sweetpotato Chips
Height, and Vigor
Across Divergent Sites
Chairperson: Graham
Thiele
Rapporteur: Mercy Kitavi
Chairperson: Kirimi Sindi
Rapporteur: Shrinivazulu
Rajandra
Theme 3
Sub Theme 3:
Sub Group B
Evaluation of some potato
varieties resistance to PVY
in Tunisia
Economic Losses Due to
Bacterial Wilt Infection on
Some Varieties of Potato
in Nigeria
Queen Chioma Uwandu,
National Root Crops
10:45-11:00
11:15-11:30
Reaction to Late Blight in
Potato Genotypes at
Sinana, South Eastern
Ethiopia
Getachew Asefa, Sinana
Agricultural Research
Center, Ethiopia
Genotype – by Environment Interaction
and Stability of
Sweetpotato Clones In
Ethiopia
Fekadu Gurmu, Southern
Agricultural Research
Institute, Ethiopia
Olajide Philip Sobukola,
Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta,
Nigeria
in Semi-Arid Eastern
Kenya
Cyrus Mbugua
Githunguri, Kenya
Agricultural and
Livestock Research
Organization
Sub Theme 4: Postharvest Evaluation of Different
handling
Nutrient Solution
Wound Healing and Dry
Formulations for Potato
Matter of Orange-Fleshed Seed Production Under
Sweetpotato Cultivars as Sand Ponic in Malawi
Influenced by Curing
Kennedy Masamba,
Methods
Ministry of AgricultureRichard A. Atuna,
Department of
University for
Agricultural Research
Development Studies
Services, Malawi
Ghana
Recognition of
Effect of Storage
Identification of Potato
Phytophthora infestans in
Temperature on Vitamin
(Solanum tuberosum)
Potato (Solanum tuberosum C, Total Phenolics, Uplc
Yield Limiting Nutrients
L.): Scr74 Gene as an
Phenolic Acids Profile and in Kenya; A Case Study
Example
Antioxidant Capacity of
of Meru and Nyandarua
Mulusew Kassa Bitew, Debre Eleven Potato (Solanum
Regions
Markos University, Ethiopia tuberosum L.) Varieties
James N. Mugo,
Joseph H. Galani,
CIP Kenya
Université des
Montagnes, Yamdeu,
Cameroon
Nouri Khamassi, Institut
National de la Recherche
Agronomique de Tunisie,
Tunisia
Research Institute
Umudike,Nigeria
Open pollinated true
potato seed (TPS)
generated seed tubers as
an alternative for
managing seed borne viral
diseases
John Onditi, Kenya
Agricultural and Livestock
Research Organization
A Multi Stakeholder
Innovation Approach to
Vibrant Potato Enterprise
in Eastern Uganda
Arthur Wasukira,
Buginyanya Zonal
Agricultural Research and
Development Institute,
Uganda
Effects of hydroxycinnamic
acid esters and bt proteins
on Sweetpotato weevil
larvae development
A. Milton Otema,
National Agricultural
Research Organization,
Uganda
Tackling Low Yield of
Potato Through Capacity
Building and Farmer Based
Seed Potato Production in
Highland of Gurage Zone,
Ethiopia.
Kasaye Negash, Holetta
Agricultural Research
Center, Ethiopia
11:30-11:45
Regulating GM Late Blight
Resistant Potato, What Do
We Really Need to Know?
Marc Ghislain,
CIP Nairobi
Effects of Pre-storage
Heat Treatment on
Sweetpotato Storage
Root Quality and
Phytochemical
Concentration
Pilirani Pankomera,
Chitedze Research
Station, Malawi
Discussion
Assessing Susceptibility
of Soil Organic Matter
Fractions to Soil Erosion
Under Potato (Solanum
tuberosum L) Cropping
Systems, Kenya
Shadrack Nyawade,
University of Nairobi,
Kenya
Discussion
Oospores As Primary
Sources of New Blight (P.
Infestans) Infection
Moses W. Nyongesa,
Kenya Agricultural and
Livestock Research
Organization
Potato Value Chain
Development: Lessons
From Eastern and Central
Africa
Charles Lung’aho Shem,
CIP Mozambique
11:45-12:00
Discussion
12.00 – 13:30
Lunch at UNECA
Discussion
Discussion
Chairperson : Moses
Nyongesa
Rapporteur : Abilio Alvaro
Chairperson :
Rapporteur :
13 :30 – 13 :45
Exploration for
Hyperaccumulators and
Partitioning of Iron and Zinc
Among Sweetpotato
Genotypes In Heavy Metal
Contaminated Soils of
Copper Belt in Zambia
Kelvin Mbewe, Zambian
Aglicultural Research Center
13.30 – 15.00
World Potato Congress
Roundtable
Caucus Room 10 (TBD)
Chairperson :Marc
Ghislain
Rapporteur : Betty Ekou
Akiror
Biological Control of the
Sweetpotato Weevil Using
Beauveria bassiana
Hlerema I. Nicholas,
Agricultural Research
Council, South Africa
Chairperson : Peter
Vanderzaag
Rapporteur : Meshack
Ronok
Impact of Potato Policies
on Kenyan Potato
Producers
Nancy M. Ng'ang'a, Kenya
Agricultural Livestock
Research Organization
13:45-14:00
Growth Analysis Of Seven
Sweetpotato Genotypes
Grown In DegradeNo sd
Ultisol In South-Eastern
Nigeria
Chairperson: Shawkat
Begum
Rapporteur: Abiyot
Aragaw
Access to Lowland Areas
for Vine Conservation: A
Key Determinant of
Increased Utilization of
Orange-Fleshed
Sweetpotato in Niassa
Province, Mozambique
Benjamin E.
Rakotoarisoa,
CIP Mozambique
Effect of Legume Cover
Crops on Potato
(Solanum tuberosum L.)
Water Use Efficiency
and Yield
Assessing effect of Partial
Root-Zone Drying (PRD)
Irrigation on Potato
Cultivation in the Blue
Nile River Basin, Ethiopia
Competitiveness of Orange
Fleshed Sweetpotato
Production Among
Smallholder Farmers In
Bomet County, Kenya
14:00-14:15
14:15-14:30
14:30-14:45
Ogechi Eke-Okoro, Micheal
Okpara University Of
Agriculture Umudike,
Nigeria
Harun Ireri. G. Samuel,
CIP Kenya
Tigist German,
CIP Ethiopia
Patrick Kiprotich Yegon,
Kenya Agricultural and
Livestock Research
Organization
International Trait
Observation Network for
Potato to Promote the
Exchange of Elite Breeding
Lines
Satu Hannele Lindqvist
Kreuze, CIP Peru
Soil Quality Assessment
of Potato-Based
Cropping Systems in the
Western Highlands of
Cameroon
Christopher M.Tankou,
University Of Dschang,
Cameroon
Effects of Nitrogen and
Potassium Rates on
Yield and Yield
Components of
Released Potato
Varieties
Egata Shunka Tolessa,
Ethiopian Institute for
Agricultural Research,
Ethiopia
Aeroponics in China:
Lessons Learned for
Optimizing Potato Mini
Tuber Production
Peter Vander Zaag,
Sunrise Potato Plc
Canada
Integrated Management
of Potato Late Blight: Role
of Host Plant Resistance
and Phosphonate
Fungicides
Elly O. Atieno,
CIP Kenya
Integrating OrangeFleshed Sweetpotato in
Zambia: Tracking Women
Participation in the Value
Chain
Felistus Chipungu,
CIP Malawi
Comparative Yield
Performance of 47
Different Orange Fleshed
Sweetpotato (OFSP)
Genotypes for Root Yield,
Dry Matter and B-Carotene
Chidi Harriman John,
Michael Okpara University
Of Agriculture Umudike,
Nigeria
Use of virus resistant
cultivars in reducing the
rate of potato seed
degeneration in Kenya
John Onditi, Kenya
Agricultural and Livestock
Research Organization
Experience in scaling
commercial potato seed
systems
Ian Barker,
Syngenta Foundation,
Switzerland
Agronomical Performance
of Potato (Solanum
tuberosum L.) Cv. Unica
Under inoculation With
Native Rhizobacteria and
Application of Acetyl
Salicylic Acid
Other meetings
Sergio E. Contreras,
Universidad Nacional
Agraria La Molina,
Peru
14:45-15:00
Discussion
15:00 to 15:30
15:30-17:30
18:30
Coffee break
APA members meeting and free evening
Traditional Evening at Totote Restaurant
Day 3
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Chairperson: Juergen
Kroschel
Rapporteur: Kalpana
Sharma
Chairperson:
Rapporteur:
Theme 3
Sub Theme 3: The role of
crop protection in
potato and Sweetpotato
cropping systems
Sub group A
A Real-time RT-PCR
essay for absolute
quantification of potato
virus S and X
Abdulwahab
Abdurahman,
Wageningen University,
The Netherlands
Sustainable Potato
Production; Use of Crop
Rotation and Inter
Cropping
James Njeru Mugo,
CIP Kenya
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Parallel Session – II (Continued)
Chairperson: Elmar Schultegeldermann. Rapporteur: Julius Okolo, Uganda
8:30-8:45
8.30 – 9.30
RTB planning meeting:
Project on climate smart
breeding.
Caucus Room 7 (TBD)
Discussion
8:45-9:00
Sustaining potato
production in bacterial
wilt endemicallyinfested environments
Rogers Kakuhenzire, CIP
Tanzania
9:00-9:15
performance of five
potato varieties in
growth and production
of mini-tubers under an
Aeroponic system in
central highlands of
Kenya
Miriam Mbiyu,
Agricultural
Development
corporation, Kenya
Effect of variety
tolerance, soil
amendments, seed
treatment and soil
drench on bacterial wilt
in potatoes
Bruce Ochieng Obura,
CIP Kenya
9:15-9:30
Investigation on The
Incidence and Severity of
Aphid (Myzus Persicae)
Infestation In Potato
(Solanum tuberosum L.)
Production on The Jos
Plateau
Thomas Y. Dalyop, Potato
Research Program,
National Root Crops
Research Institute, Nigeria
Participatory Potato Seed
Production a
breakthrough for food
security and income
generation in central
highlands of Ethiopia
Abebe Chindi, Ethiopian
Institute for Agricultural
Research
Optimization of Standard
Protocol For In Vitro And
Large-Scale MicroPropagation Of
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea
batatas L.): Beletech
Goitom Hadush, MIT plant
tissue culture laboratory,
Ethiopia
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
10.30 - 11:00
11:30-11:45
Presentation of Awards
Evaluation
Coffee break
Closing Session Dr. Fentahun Mengistu
12.00 – 13:00
Lunch at UNECA
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Day 3 (Afternoon) Departure to respective countries
Departure for Field Trip to Mekelle
Day 4
Thursday 13 October 2016 - Field Trips
Advances in bacterial
wilt management
research no silver
bullets but solid building
blocks
Dr. Elmar SchulteGeldermann,
CIP Kenya
Discussion
Virus Degeneration of
Sweetpotato Planting
Material Multiplied in Net
Tunnels Compared to that
Multiplied in Open Fields,
Tanzania
Kwame O. Ogero,
CIP Tanzania
Discussion