Between 14th and 27th November, ACAI held two meetings with development partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Ibadan, Nigeria to review the collaboration between the project and the partners, and to agree on short...
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...
PSALTRY International Company Limited, one of the investors in the Nigerian cassava industry, has said that the country has started benefiting from its investment as the import substitution policy of the Federal Government in cassava...
An expert at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Mr. Kenton Dashiell, says low plant yield and poor agronomy practice is responsible for the poor status of most cassava farmers in Nigeria. Dashiell, who is...
[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...
[caption id="attachment_954" align="alignright" width="369"] Researchers taking data from harvest[/caption] The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project being managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has commenced harvest of the 2016 established field trials...
