Overview of Sweet potato Production Trends in Africa

Sweetpotato is an important crop in the world and its production in Nigeria cannot always show upwards or downwards trends due to adoption behaviour of the farmers and other constraints associated with crop production. The production in Nigeria was on increase rate for some periods and later started decreasing with some percentages when Nigerian farmers saw sweetpotato as an alternative crop that should be treated with low priorities. Africa ranked second after China in terms of sweetpotato production with 17 million tons produced. This is because the special nutrition need by people have shifted their focus to the adoption of orange flesh sweet potato for consumption due to its high content of Vitamin A. in the light of these, this paper used available literature to review the; sweetpotato production trends in Africa, sweetpotato production trends in Nigeria, sweetpotato production and different varieties of sweetpotato and socio-economic characteristics of sweetpotato producers and processors.