A survey involving 191 respondents was conducted in Mbale and Kumi in eastern Uganda to get an insight into the current state of tuber utilisation among sweet potato producers in the country. Sweet potato farmers produced and consumed six sweet potato products, that is, fresh sweet potato tubers, pit stored sweet potatoes, amukeke, inginyo, amukeke flour and inginyo flour. Farmers on average consumed 11% of their fresh sweet potato tuber output, 24% of the amukeke output, 13% of the inginyo output, 31% of the pit stored sweet potato output, 100% of the inginyo flour output and 100% of the amukeke flour output. They sold 28% of fresh tuber output, 34% of the amukeke output, 48% of the inginyo output and 42% of the pit stored sweet potato output. They lost 9% of their fresh sweet potato tubers, 10% of the amukeke output, 13% of the inginyo output and 27% of the pit stored sweet potato output. They also processed 29% of their fresh sweet potato output into either amukeke or inginyo or both, 32% of the amukeke output was further processed into amukeke flour and 26.2% of inginyo was processed into inginyo flour.
