The ICOPSEA consortium together with Eight Tech Consults Ltd developed an ICT platform comprising of the Viazi Vitamu System, web portal and mobile application for sweet potato growers in the East African region. It was mainly setup to help the farmers with monitoring production, inspection and marketing of quality planting materials.
On the 18th March,2021 the ICOPSEA team together with the partners who included Eight Tech Consults Ltd, Bio-Innovate Africa, Senai Bio-Science Laboratories, Harvest Plus, Jomo-Kenyatta University of Agriculture and technology, Makerere University , Tari and Rab launched the Viazi Vitamu System at Imperial Royale, Kampala.
Dr. Drake Mirembe our Chief Technology Officer during his presentation. The Commissioner Crop Inspection and Certification Mr.Paul Mwabu during his presentation. Prof. Kyamanywa Samuel addressing the audience during the launch.
We are delighted to have been part of the launch of the Viazi Vitamu System and application which will make a sweet potato farmers life easier by enabling them buy quality vines and roots that have been grown by experts in the field, enabling them register to become certified sweet potato growers and sharing the problems they are facing amongst others.
You can access the system and download the application using the links below respectively:
https://dashboard.sweetpotatoeseastafrica.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icopsea.sweetpotatoeseastafrica.viazi