{"id":4898,"date":"2019-08-27T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"sweet-potato-flour-offers-new-prospects-for-agro-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/27\/sweet-potato-flour-offers-new-prospects-for-agro-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Flour Offers New Prospects For Agro-Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\u00a0Emmanuel Ntirenganya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Processing\nsweet potato into flour has proven to be one of the means to diversify bakery\nproducts, prevent post-harvest losses and provide farmers with a ready market\nfor their produce, players in the potato value chain have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\nwere speaking on Monday, during the 11th African Potato Association (APA)\nconference being held in Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nhas brought together about 200 participants including researchers, development\npartners, policy-makers and entrepreneurs drawn from over 20 countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sweet\npotatoes, especially the orange variety, are rich in energy, vitamins, calcium\nand iron among other nutrients which are needed for improving nutrition\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/sweet-potato-flour-offers-new-prospects-agro-industry\">Read more&gt;&gt;\n&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Emmanuel Ntirenganya Processing sweet potato into flour has proven to be one of the means to diversify bakery products, prevent post-harvest losses and provide farmers with a ready market for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}