Dr Alfred Dixon, Project Leader for the IITA-CWMP has urged partners and staff working under the project to redouble their efforts and ensure that all the key milestones for the year are met. Dr Dixon,...
Researchers working with the IITA-CWMP have published a chapter in one of a series of books published by Burleigh Dodds Publishing. The researchers — Dr. Stefan Hauser, IITA Senior Systems Agronomist; and Prof. Friday Ekeleme,...
Godwin Atser, Communication & Knowledge Exchange Expert, (left) training farmers on the field on best weed control practices in cassava cropping systems. The ongoing farmers’ field days being conducted by IITA-CWMP have continued to attract...
The IITA Cassava Weed Management Project is signing agreements for the setting up of 136 demonstration plots with farmers across four states in Nigeria. Under the agreements, participating farmers will make available plots of land...
Scientists working on cassava breeding are now using the Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) technology to rev up the propagation of clean cassava planting materials. The SAH involves the use of modified soil which holds plant roots...
For the first half of 2017, the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative, ACAI, recorded remarkable field trials set up in the Southern Zone and Zanzibar project sites in Tanzania. Between January and May 2017, the International...
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative team met on the 21st and 22nd of June in Zanzibar to review the second season results and plan for the project’s third season activities that will be undertaken during...
Prices of cassava stems have nosedived to N400 ($1.3 dollar) per bundle after touching a high of N1200 ($3.8) as demand eases in Nigeria. Last year and earlier in 2017, prices of cassava roots and...
Two top officials of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were in IITA to discuss ways to address food security in Africa with impact at scale. The two-person team comprising Tom Kehoe and Audu Grema...
[caption id="attachment_999" align="alignright" width="432"] Dr Richardson Okechukwu (right) taking the Osun State Governor, Mrs Grace Laoye-Tomori on tour of the exhibition[/caption] More than 2000 farmers in Osun state benefitted from the cassava projects which are...
