KENYA · GUIDE 0020 · EDITION 4.2

Sweet potato growing in Kenya

Grow sweet potatoes for fresh food buyers.

A CONCRETE EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE

Fictional sweet-potato order: a breakfast vendor takes 50 kg of whole roots of one approved variety for boiling and roasting, delivered in five 10 kg net crates. It wants the cooked texture demonstrated in a trial, manageable portion sizes and sound skins. Orange, white and purple flesh types must not be substituted without approval. Provide a variety-and-lifting card showing planting source, trial block, harvested kilograms, cut or broken roots, size grades and accepted net delivery.

Who is the first customer?

Markets and breakfast-food sellers.

Test the offer

Compare trial roots from locally suitable planting material with a named buyer's preference.

What your operating pack contains

A business-specific operating guide PDF
Offline itemised costing and quotation tool
Supplier request and sales message drafts
Job-card and quality-response documents
Offline operations desk: supplier comparison, work checkpoints, accepted deliveries and cash tracking
Source register and unresolved checks

Delivery and quality

State variety and grade accurately; cut or rotten roots should not be hidden in a sack.

Cost drivers

vines
lifting labour
handling losses

Use your own supplier quotations. Worked figures in the pack are illustrative and do not establish a verified startup budget or profit forecast.

Evidence and scope

University of Georgia Extension: Home Garden Sweet Potatoes ↗
Sweet-potato planting material, fragile fresh skin and careful lifting only; no foreign fertiliser rate, maturity promise or curing schedule is adopted. · Checked 2026-10-26

Codex Code of Hygienic Practice for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (2013 retrieved edition) ↗
Harvest-container hygiene, contamination prevention and lot traceability only; this retrieved edition does not establish current Kenyan licensing or a crop-specific pesticide programme. · Checked 2026-10-26