Promoting Chips

New Agriculturist reports:

...Berga Lemaga of the International Potato Center (CIP) believes that there is great potential for an East African chip-making industry. A marketing survey conducted during 2004-2006 found that over 50 per cent of low-income urban households in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda make their own chips. Corresponding figures for wealthier households in these countries average almost 80 per cent, with the highest (100%) in Rwanda and the lowest (54%) in Tanzania...[continue reading]