The quest for food security is an onerous task amid Covid 19, climate change, harsh operating environment and the likes. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and other partners were on field trips recently...
…As BASICS-II webinar attracts over 200 participants To help cassava farmers have easy access to improved cassava planting materials for the 2022 planting season, the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2...
As the end of the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project draws near, members of AKILIMO Nigeria held a meeting to discuss the continuity and sustainability of AKILIMO, a product of the project. A significant...
Cassava is one of the crops powering the engine of agricultural development in Tanzania. In the latest breakthrough, ‘certified seed’ (= certified planting material) produced by smallholder seed producers has been shown to deliver huge...
The project Building Economically Sustainable Seed Systems for Cassava, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) organized a day-long National Cassava Business Summit to develop a cassava seed system in Tanzania. The summit was held on Thursday, 17 February...
Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Honourable Hussein Mohamed Bashe wants the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to support the East African region towards cassava, soybean and banana transformation for economic prosperity. In a meeting with...
Nigeria, the largest producer of cassava in the world, needs to adopt a new seed system approach to compete globally and keep the price of cassava-based foods stable and affordable in the country, experts have...
As farmers begin to prepare for the 2022 planting season, it is crucial to be guided by the popular saying, “you reap what you sow”. Farmers, therefore, need to plant the best seeds to reap...
