Zambia has introduced the consumption and production of 'Garri,' one of Nigeria's major staple foods, into the country's school feeding programme. Garri is derived from processed cassava, which is grown in almost all parts of...
Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday, announced plans to ban the use of paraquat by farmers amid mounting evidence that the product hurts applicators and the environment. The...
The IITA- Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) has conducted 44 farmer field days across several local communities in Abia, Benue, Ogun, and Oyo states to showcase to farmers, result-driven weed control practices during the Project’s...
The IITA- Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) has developed a mobile application that could help farmers apply the correct dose of herbicides on cassava and other field crops. In most rural communities in Africa, the...
Mr. Petro Kagusi, a cassava farmer from Kidete village, Mzenga ward, Kisarawe region, Eastern Tanzania is extremely happy with the new improved farming practices he has learned through the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project....
The Cassava Compact of the African Development Bank (AfDB)-funded Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (AfDB-TAAT) is using the recommendations of the IITA Cassava Weed Management Project as part of its Good Agricultural Practices in cassava...
…Trains 60 extension agents The international Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) says it plans to work closely with the Taraba State Government to transform cassava in the framework of the African Development Bank-funded Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation...
