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...
“Cassava is the most important food staple in sub-Saharan Africa,” says Morag [Ferguson], a cassava specialist who [works] with [the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s (IITA) Nairobi office]…However…yields can be reduced strongly since the majority of...
Commissioners of agriculture in Nigeria’s cassava growing belt have declared weeds as major drivers of low yield in cassava and the main constraint limiting the competitiveness of cassava farmers in the country. The declaration was...
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) has announced that it will carry out 563 trials across Nigeria and Tanzania to help unlock the agronomy of cassava. The trials, which will be led by the International...
