Philippine root crops show promise in promoting green lifestyle
To “go home and plant kamote (sweet potato)” in Filipino lingo depicts a picture of helplessness, and there are many negative, if humorous, connotations about the “lowly” kamote that in local minds make it pale beside loftier foreign greens. Yet the people from Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay, Leyte, one of the leading agricultural universities in the Philippines , hold that there is much more to this and other indigenous root crops than what readily meet the eye.
According to Dr. Julieta Roa, head of the Philippine Rootcrop Research and Training Center (PhilRootcrops) based in VSU, the multiple health benefits and ready availability of root crops in our soil like gabi, potato, ube, and cassava are primary reasons to further elevate root crops into staple food status, as is already being done for kamote and cassava in places like …
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