Spota Company processes the sweet potatoes into flour for porridge, flour for baking and crisps and this flour produced from sweet potato contains natural sugar (because the sweet potato contains natural sugar in itself), so the porridge flour from sweet potato can be prepared without adding the industrial sugar and bakery flour made from sweet potato is used to make bakery products with reduced consumption of industrial sugar.
Hence, the sweet potato based flour substitute the industrial sugar which is sometimes unuffordable and non-accessible to the market in Burundi.
Since Spota Company started its sweet potato flour processing project, the company granted to sweet potato farmers a flow market of 18,450kg sweet potato, over 6,688 women, 1,845 children below five years, 1,370 old people were registered as beneficiaries of our products and 58 youths have been employed (full time, part time and seasonal workers).