Sweetpotato breeding priority and preferred traits to increasing its utilisation in Niger and Nigeria

Sweetpotato is an important food, feed and vegetable crop in Niger Nigeria. The adoption of a new variety depends on famers consumers preferences. objective this study was to identify sweetpotato preferred traits by end-users conducted two countries through participatory rural appraisal. results revealed that produced men Niger, while it mostly women South-East In 100% cultivated varieties were landraces, 75.00% Nigeria landraces. Results showed farmers high yielding, white flesh colour, drought tolerant varieties, they earliness cultivars. Traders both healthy, colour big storage root size varieties. There need effective breeding program should turn toward developing cultivars with yield, tolerant, pest disease resistant. Key words: sweetpotato, trait, farmer, consumer,