The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given thumbs up to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) led Cassava Weed Management Project for training spray service providers at the...
In search for cassava processing technologies, to promote industrial research in the area of agriculture and to foster national unity between Nigeria and Liberia, delegates from Liberia, last week, visited to the Federal Institute of...
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has blamed the high cost of cassava by-products on the losses which cassava farmers incurred three years ago. The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of AFAN, Mr...
The limited cassava availability and increased cost of cassava products within the country, is caused by the incessant attacks on farmlands by Fulani herdsmen. This is according to the Nigeria Cassava Growers Association. The assertion...
Seed sector professionals have said that businesses selling improved varieties and high quality cassava stems for cultivation could help African farmers significantly raise their productivity. This will mean more Naira from the same land, inputs...
[caption id="attachment_954" align="alignright" width="369"] Researchers taking data from harvest[/caption] The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project being managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has commenced harvest of the 2016 established field trials...
World heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has taken to social media to show of some of what he describes as his source of power. The British Nigerian boxer posted the photo of a bowl of...
More than 3 million people in Africa are growing and consuming vitamin A “yellow” cassava. Read more...
...At the moment, the prices of gari range from N500 upwards per congo, while that of maize is about N400. They used to be far less last quarter and the one before. Read more...
For breeders of cassava, a staple food for hundreds of millions in the tropics, producing improved varieties has been getting harder over time. A team at Cornell used genomic analysis of cassava varieties and wild...
