A new tool to fight cassava diseases using an artificially intelligent machine has been launched. Nuru, as the device is known, has been developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in collaboration with...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said it will invest $120 million in the framework of the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) in the next 2-3 years to boost the productivity and transform cassava and other eight other...
Two brothers from the Eastern Region of Ghana, James and Kwesi Ansah have discovered a new way of producing electricity using waste from cassava. Electricity generated from the root vegetable can power radios and mobile...
Nigeria’s cassava output is set to increase as a result of rising demand by China for cassava products used in food and pharmaceuticals and as a bio-fuel, according to the Nigerian Cassava Growers Association (NCGA)....
The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA), has completed training for framers in Edo State on farm mechanisation and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). Explaining the rationale for the training, held in Benin City, the Edo State...
The International Scientific Committee under the auspices of the GCP21 presented a special recognition to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for funding dozens of projects related to cassava, thereby contributing to the transformation of...
A lecturer at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Dr. Abdul-Rasak Adebowale, has advocated a law to back up the policy of 10 per cent cassava flour inclusion in...
Foreign businesses have agreed to purchase nearly 1.5 million tonnes of Thai tapioca products at the World Tapioca Conference 2018 recently organised in Bangkok. The business matching event between Thai traders and importers from China,...
