Scientists to detail progress, challenges on global cassava threats at IITA
The world’s top cassava experts will gather in Nigeria to report progress on developing new varieties of cassava with higher yield and nutritional content. The meeting will take place on March 14-16, at the International...
Audu Ogbeh Agric Minister says cassava helps fight poverty in Nigeria
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said on Tuesday that cassava is a crop that helps fight poverty in Nigeria. Ogbeh said this while speaking at the Annual Planning Meeting of...
IITA Cassava Weed Management Project empowers cassava farmers
“If not cassava, many of us would have died of hunger… But thank God, cassava was handy to save the situation.” Those were the words of Julius Kpenkpen, one of the farmers who is participating...
IITA Cassava Weed Management Project Empowers Cassava Farmers In Economic Recession
When a Nigerian novelist, Florence Nwapa (1931-1993) wrote about the importance of cassava in her poem—Cassava, not many people may have appreciated the importance of cassava in national and food security. Nwapa’s article was inspired...
IITA’s Cassava Weed Management Study Reveals Gaps in Nigeria’s Extension System
A study on the Training Needs Assessment of extension agents in Nigeria has revealed several gaps and constraints that have hitherto limited the effectiveness of extension service in the country. Findings from the study, which...
ACAI sets up 563 trials in Nigeria and Tanzania to solve cassava agronomy puzzle
ACAI makes good progress… and sets up 563 trials in Nigeria and Tanzania to solve cassava agronomy puzzle. The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative in 2016 established 563 trials across Nigeria and Tanzania to help unlock...
ACAI sets up 563 trials in Nigeria, Tanzania on cassava agronomy issues
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative in 2016 established 563 trials across Nigeria and Tanzania to help unlock the agronomy of cassava. The trials were part of the broader initiative by the research community led by...
Cassava Initiative makes good progress, sets up trials in Nigeria and Tanzania
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative in 2016 established 563 trials across Nigeria and Tanzania to help unlock the agronomy of cassava. The trials were part of the broader initiative by the research community led by...