Sweetpotato Quality Improvement Specialist

il y a 4 semaines


Montpellier, Occitanie, France CIP Temps plein
Project Overview

The RTB Breeding for Quality project is a significant undertaking within the broader RTB breeding project. This project aims to integrate processing and eating quality of boiled sweetpotato into routine breeding activities, building upon the progress achieved by the RTBfoods project (2018 – 2023). Key outputs from the RTBfoods project include Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), instrumental texture analysis, and draft consumer acceptability/rejection thresholds.

Objective

The primary objectives of this project are two-fold:
  1. To extract sweetpotato genotypes with superior quality traits from breeding populations using the SOPs developed in the RTBfoods project.
  2. To evaluate thresholds of acceptability/rejection of selected essential quality traits for boiled sweetpotato in Uganda.

Deliverables

The project will deliver a range of outputs, including:
  1. Development of a consumer test questionnaire and presentation to an interdisciplinary team for review.
  2. Retooling of a trained sensory panel, including a final activity report.
  3. Training of enumerators who will administer consumer tests, with a workshop report.
  4. Organization and conduct of consumer tests and participatory processing quality tests in urban and rural locations with selected panel of genotypes grown in Namulonge, including a field activity report.
  5. Quality tests on samples used in consumer tests, including descriptive sensory analysis, curating, collating, organizing all quality data, and drafting a report including results from consumer tests and participatory processing quality, as well as developing models to validate cooking quality thresholds.
  6. Routine quality analysis of sweetpotato harvests, including a cooking quality report on genotypes from 2023B and 2024A harvests.

Time Frame

The consultancy contract will be for 131 days.

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