There are efforts to improve seed system in sub-Sahara Africa. Cassava is among specific seed systems being addressed. Stakeholders are calling for increased local support to boost cassava seed system ...

When I first encountered a cassava plant, it was love at first sight, and over the years, my affection for this graceful and highly useful perennial has only increased. Inside the US, cassava is ...

At 10 tonnes per hectare average cassava yield, compared with Asian countries’more than 20 tonnes per hectare, Nigeria’s cassava average yield is still considered low. However, Nigeria’s seed industry ...

That meant that their yields were always low and the crop prone to attacks. But that is no longer the case thanks to an initiative that has been promoting cassava as a healthy alternative to maize.

WWF Care Alliance has handed over a cassava milling machine to Umumbo and Kazi Tu groups in Nachingwea District Council. The milling machine will guarantee value addition to cassava produced by the ...

Rwandan farmers say persistent shortages of quality seeds and limited access to climate-resilient crop varieties continue to undermine productivity, even as authorities point to a new project aimed at ...

The giant yucca certainly lives up to its name: Yucca gigantea rises 30 feet high in ideal conditions, with white blossoms that push out from the center -- flor de izote, as the bloom is sometimes ...

Kenyans love their maize and wheat products. Every meal of protein is accompanied by either ugali or chapati. But herein lies the problem. Owing to a number of factors, the two staple foods cannot ...