
About Course
Stop Selling Fresh Kaukau. Start Selling Premium Sweet Potato Products.
Are you a kaukau grower tired of low returns? A cooperative or entrepreneur ready to create a food business? This Sweet Potato Processing Masterclass equips you with modern skills to transform bulky, perishable roots into durable, high-demand products that fetch premium prices.
Sweet potato (kaukau) is PNG’s most widely grown staple, yet most of it is sold raw or wasted. This training helps you tap into new income opportunities by processing kaukau into flour, snacks, baked goods, and more—extending its value far beyond the village market.
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This Masterclass Is Your Pathway to Success:
🛠️ Skill Development: Practical, step-by-step training in modern sweet potato processing.
💰 Income Diversification: Create multiple profit streams from a single crop.
🌱 Post-Harvest Solutions: Reduce losses and preserve surplus harvests.
📈 Business Growth: Move from subsistence sales into branded, packaged enterprises.
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What You Will Learn:
Product Transformation: How to process kaukau into:
– Sweet Potato Flour (for gluten-free and baking markets).
– Chips & Crisps (snack foods).
– Instant Noodles (growing demand in local and export markets).
– Baked Products (biscuits, bread, cookies, and cakes).
– Alcoholic Beverages (wine and spirits from sweet potato fermentation).
– Animal Feed (from processing by-products).
Quality & Safety: Learn best practices in hygiene, food safety, packaging, and labeling.
Costing & Pricing: Understand how to calculate costs and set profitable prices.
The PNGFE Advantage: This course links directly with PNGFE’s funding and marketplace platforms.
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Your Training Is the Key to Unlocking PNGFE Support:
🚀 Funding Eligibility: Completing this course qualifies you to apply for PNGFE funding for flour mills, noodle machines, chip production, or bakeries.
🛒 Marketplace Access: Gain rights to sell your certified kaukau flour, noodles, and snacks on the PNGFE Marketplace.
📜 Certification: Earn a PNGFE certificate of completion, strengthening your credibility with customers and financiers.
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Choose Your Learning Plan:
– Individual Course Access: Enroll in the Kaukau Processing Masterclass for K150.
– The Ultimate Advantage: Get unlimited access to all PNGFE courses (Banana, Taro, Cocoa, Coconut, Pigs, Bees, Aquaponics, and more) for a full year with the PNGFE Annual Membership for just K390.
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Turn Kaukau Into Cash. Start Processing Today!
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This comprehensive course covers all aspects of kaukau processing, from raw material selection to value-added product creation and marketing strategies for various markets.
Unlock the hidden wealth in sweet potatoes! This masterclass teaches you to transform kaukau into flour, chips, crisps, noodles, baked products, and even alcohol. Learn step-by-step processing skills to turn PNG’s most common staple into high-value, long-lasting, and market-ready products. Boost your earnings, reduce waste, and qualify for PNGFE funding and marketplace access. For even greater value, get unlimited access to this and all other courses with a PNGFE Annual Membership for just K390.
Course Content
Kaukau Chips & Snacks
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Introduction to Kaukau Chips
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Quiz: Kaukau Chips & Snacks
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Production Process
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Packaging & Marketing
Kaukau Flour & Gluten-Free Baking
Kaukau Puree & Baby Food
Fermented Products & Kaukau Beer
Confections & Value-Added Products
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