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 ...
Dar es Salaam — Cassava crop, one of the cash crops in Tanzania has been singled out as the one which will play a big role in improving the lives of farmers in the country if well developed. Taking ...
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Climate change could pose a major risk to cassava in Africa: study sets out what can be done now
Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition lifeboat for over 800 million people worldwide. Sub-saharan Africa ...
The cassava industry can create three million jobs in Nigeria, the Coordinator, Cassava Value Chain, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Regional Hub for East Africa, Tanzania, Dr ...
Given the increase in its production to meet rising demand from operators in the livestock feed, starch and bio fuel markets, cassava is gradually becoming a major cash crop and driver of industrial ...
Nairobi, Kenya (18 October, 2007)—A meeting of Africa’s leading cassava breeders zeroed in on actions needed to stop the rapid spread of cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). The resurgent crop disease ...
The four-year research projects, worth US$10.6 million, aim to salvage one of the world’s top cash crops and the staple food for 500 million people across the developing world. The projects were ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Cassava is one of the developing world’s most important crops. Its starchy ...
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