The Agricultural Core Delivery Team (CDT) of the State Partnership for Agriculture (SPA) says its projection is for Kogi to attain annual production of 20 million tonnes of cassava by 2020. Mr Thomas Agene, the...
Farmers in Nigeria may no longer depend on the old method of planting cassava all year round. The coordinator of Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON), Mrs Maria Ukpayang, who stated this recently....
Farmers and researchers are lamenting low cassava productivity attributed to the impact of major diseases such as Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Steak Disease (CBSD). CBSD leads to root rot and shows in...
Mr Duro Kuteyi, a former Chairman of the National Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to implement an intervention for cassava farmers, towards enhancing food production. Kuteyi...
Mr Bassey Elemi, Cross River State Coordinator of Fadama III project says the state is working toward exporting cassava leaves to other countries. Elemi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
Ekiti-born medical doctor Tope Aroge, has found fortune in processing cassava into flour, starch and animal feed. After eight years in the business, he is encouraging others to explore opportunities across the sector, DANIEL ESSIET...
The Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA), says Nigeria can save N2 trillion from the importation of wheat, if appropriate measures are put in place to boost cassava cultivation. Mr Segun Adewunmi, the National President of...
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has blamed the high cost of cassava by-products on the losses which cassava farmers incurred three years ago. The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of AFAN, Mr...
[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...
