IITA-CWMP signs agreements with 136 farmers for on-farm demonstrations
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...
Researchers introduce new technology to speed up cassava multiplication
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...
Researchers employ SAH technology to speed up multiplication of cassava planting materials
Scientists working on cassava breeding are now using the Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) technology to rev up the propagation of clean cassava planting materials. The SAH involves the use of modified soil which holds plant roots...
ACAI registers remarkable success in field trials set-up in Tanzania
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...
ACAI reviews second season results, plans future activities
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...
Import substitution: Cassava starch firm saves economy N1.22bn annually
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...
Expert explains why cassava farmers are poor
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...
ACAI and IITA-CWMP begin harvest of 2016 trials in Nigeria
[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...
Innovatively Expanding the Reach and Impact of Vitamin A Cassava in Africa
More than 3 million people in Africa are growing and consuming vitamin A “yellow” cassava. Read more...