Sweetpotato plays a critical role as a food security crop in Uganda - it can be harvested in 4 months with a substantial tuber yield of up to 20 tones/ha. It is increasingly becoming an essential source of income for smallholder (resource-poor) farmers by selling tubers. The growing awareness of health benefits attributed to sweet potato, especially vitamin A-rich orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) varieties, has stimulated interest in the crop. The OFSP also fetch a premium on the international market. OFSP is envisaged to become an export commodity from Uganda. Therefore, resource-poor farmers can be mobilized to engage in sweet potato production with minimum requirements for its products and in a short time (4 months).