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...
Manufacturing firms in hunt for cassava derivatives
Manufacturing firms in the food and beverage sector have increased their demand for cassava derivates to be used as supplement for sugar. This is even as health concerns mount over the consumption of sugar and...
Youths To Cultivate 500 Hectares Of Cassava In Auchi – AFAN Chairman
Dr Mohammed Abdullahi, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Edo North Senatorial District, on Monday said that youths in the area would cultivate 500 hectares of cassava next year. Abdullahi disclosed this in an interview...
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...
FIIRO partners German firms GIZ, BOSCH on cassava processing
As part of fulfilling its mandate of rapid industrial acceleration through research and development, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) has entered an agreement with two German companies GIZ and BOSCH. GIZ is...
Kogi Cassava Farmers Assured Of Ready Market
An agro-based processing company, CrestAgro Products, on Monday assured cassava farmers in Kogi of its readiness to uptake their produce at end of this year’s harvests. Mr Leye Akinrinade, the General Manager of the company,...