To improve their yields and incomes, African cassava farmers need regular and reliable access to high quality planting materials of the newest and best varieties. Access to such cassava stems, however, is often a problem. ...
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Prof. Lateef Oladimeji Sanni has been appointed the Project Manager of the project: Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System Phase II (acronym BASICS II). BASICS II aims to transform the cassava seed sector...
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For the past decades, Africa, has been grappling with the sustainable diffusion of improved cassava varieties due to a weak and uncoordinated dissemination strategy. Consequently, improved varieties have often failed to reach the hands of...
Read MoreWhen the IITA Cassava Weed Management Project was conceived in 2014, one of the concerns on the minds of many was whether the team would be able to provide solutions that would address weeds in...
Read MoreTraditionally, farmers in Nigeria plant cassava from year to year using planting materials from their own fields or via farmer to farmer exchange. Cassava stems were considered by the average farmer to be of little...
Read MoreResearchers working under the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System (BASICS) project have harvested the first ever plots of cassava stems derived from a novel cassava propagation system, the Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponic (SAH). The...
Read MoreScientists 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...
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