St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland;) has completed the construction of an Etanolix pilot plant at Ubon Bio Ethanol Ltd.’s (UBE) starch and ethanol plant site in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. In the project, St1 is piloting...
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has invested more than N2.7 billion to boost rice and cassava production in Benue State since September last year. Emmanuel Igba, the IFAD state programme coordinator, disclosed this in...
The Edo Government said on Tuesday that it would, in partnership with Elephant Group PLC, grow 1,155 hectares of cassava in the state. Gov. Godwin Obaseki, stated this when the group, a private concern, paid...
Findings by the Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) have shown that over 60 percent of farm households have adopted improved cassava varieties in the country. This was revealed at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike,...
A mobile app designed by Penn State researchers to help farmers and others diagnose crop diseases has earned recognition from one of the world's tech giants. PlantVillage, developed by a team led by David Hughes,...
Commissioners of agriculture in Nigeria’s cassava growing belt have alerted that weeds are now a major threat to cassava production in Nigeria. The Commissioners raised the alarm in a communique signed by 14 commissioners of...
The Commissioners for Agriculture in Nigeria’s cassava growing belt have said that weeds are major cause of low yields in cassava production in the country. According to them, weeds are the main constraint limiting the...
Cassava farmers in Abia, Benue, Oyo and Ogun states have in the last four years, enjoyed the benefits of the weed control techniques developed and introduced to them by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture...
Commissioners of agriculture in Nigeria’s cassava growing belt have declared weeds as major drivers of low yield in cassava and the main constraint limiting the competitiveness of cassava farmers in the country. The declaration was...
Dr Hemant Nitturkar, said on Friday that scientists and other experts in the agriculture sector are currently partnering on developing a sustainable cassava seed system to solve the problem of low productivity of the crop....
