Potato is an important food and cash crop in Eastern and Central Africa, playing a major role in national food and nutrition security, poverty alleviation.

 Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.

The sector still remains largely dominated by rain-fed subsistence farming by smallholders who cultivate an average land holding of less than a hectare.

Consultants and group work by the participants to apply the tools to potato sector.