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 Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to developing Nigeria’s cassava bioethanol value chain as part of efforts to drive ...

Drone technology has been recently introduced in Cambodia’s cassava cultivations to help small-scale farmers earn better yield while bringing down the costs of farm input. Cassava is the most ...

NAN recalls that the State Government had earlier announced its plans to earmark over 100,000 hectares of land to boost cassava production for export and job creation. Eze remarked in an interview ...

National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Agbeyewa Farms on the launch a Joint Venture partnership on land development for cassava ...

The Ondo State government and Matna Foods Company Limited have launched a partnership aimed at drawing thousands of young ...

The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) has cleared 50 hectares of land at Ochekwu community in Olamoboro Local Government Area of Kogi to ease the cultivation of cassava by 50 ...

At 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 17, farmers and consumers from cassava-growing districts gathered in a hall at the Rubona Agricultural Research Station in Huye District for a sensory evaluation of six ...

Nigeria, the world’s largest producer of cassava, is taking bold steps to add value to its vast cassava output by producing pharmaceutical-grade starch, it emerged on Wednesday. The Director ...

A new cassava workshop at the Cayo Levantado Resort in the Dominican Republic will highlight the history of the root vegetable and enable guests to bake their own cassava bread. Photo Credit: Cayo ...

A research team has proposed inbred-parent–based hybrid cassava breeding to overcome the challenges of heterozygous parent use, aiming to transform cassava breeding by purging deleterious mutations ...