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,...
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...
Manufacturing firms in the food and beverage sector have increased their demand for cassava derivates to be used as supplement for sugar. This is even as health concerns mount over the consumption of sugar and...
Scientists are now using Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) technology to speed up the propagation of clean cassava planting materials. Godwin Atser, the communication expert of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), made this known via a...
Dr Mohammed Abdullahi, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Edo North Senatorial District, on Monday said that youths in the area would cultivate 500 hectares of cassava next year. Abdullahi disclosed this in an interview...
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...
As part of fulfilling its mandate of rapid industrial acceleration through research and development, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) has entered an agreement with two German companies GIZ and BOSCH. GIZ is...
