The events of last week (4 - 8 November) when members of the Cassava Weed Management Project (CWMP) visited the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States of America may have come and...
National Agricultural Research and Extension partners in Tanzania have applauded the training on Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management/ Best Planting Practices, saying they were now better equipped to take the agronomy of cassava to...
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) recently unveiled a suite of digital tools that are helping in transforming farming, improving yield and livelihoods of farmers. The digital tools include the cassava, Goseed and yam...
…As experts validate translations As part of measures to ensure that the Decision Support Tools (DSTs) developed by the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) are available to farmers in several Nigerian languages, language experts, researchers,...
About 30,000 farmers from Abia, Benue, Oyo, Ogun and Osun state will benefit from the training on the Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management & Best Planting Practices, says Godwin Atser, ACAI Digital Extension &...
Three Nigerian radio stations are now broadcasting agronomic recommendations on the Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management and Best Planting Practices. The Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management and Best Planting Practices is one of...
The IITA-led Africa Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) and its partners held a week-long preparatory workshop, taking vital decisions on the scaling of the project’s Decision Support Tools (DSTs). Participants at the meeting, which took place...
ACAI has released its first field test version of the Akilimo decision support system in paper and application format. These will be used by extension agents to help cassava farmers in Nigeria and Tanzania optimize...
Researchers working under the Cassava Compact of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) have trained a total of 350 cassava farmers and Spray Service Providers on good agricultural practices (GAP) including appropriate use of...
A mobile phone application (mobile app) that enables farmers to control weeds through efficient use of inputs has been launched in Ibadan with more than 1,000 downloads from Google Play store. The app known as...
