Community-based multiplication enables farmers to obtain hardened planting materials closer to the fields, and particularly effective for releasing and maintaining improved varieties, and controlling pest and disease infestations. The improvement in availability, access and quality of life sweet potato planting material that can be realized through the collaborative approach make it possible to distribute large amounts in a short period of time at the start of rainy seasons.

Multiplication of sweet potato through community-based organization can be done using basic materials that can be found locally, including tent-style greenhouse, fertilizers and disease control agents. Advanced multiplier set-ups involve assets like drip irrigation and other mechanized tools that reduce labor costs.

Public and private sector breeders produce tissue culture plantlets from improved varieties inside the laboratory that are subsequently cut into more than 15 mother plants. Community-based multipliers obtain a small number of the certified cuttings or seed potato from breeders which they subsequently use to grow rooted cuttings and vines in the screen house, altogether taking just over 14 days. Sweet potato multipliers are organized across a community based on the cultivation area and road connectivity, usually having sites for planting material multiplication dispersed at distances of 1 to 20 km.