The NBA’s mandate now extends to biosecurity, which is considered a matter of national security. A review of the National ...

Cassava is a staple food for millions of people across Africa and a major source of income and employment for farmers. There are efforts to create an effective cassava entrepreneurship system to boost ...

Nigeria needs 28.3 million metric tonnes of fresh cassava roots planted annually. It needs about 1.2 million hectares of land to meet the country’s demand for some of the cassava by-products and ...

Amani Wajane Women Group from Mande village in Vitengeni within Kilifi County display cassava roots after uprooting it from the ground in one of their demonstration farm. (PHOTO: GIDEON ...

Cassava variety in a Confined Field Trail at the Kenya Agricultural Livestock and Research Organization (Kalro). [Ignatius Odanga, Standard] Researchers at Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research ...

The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...

Cassava roots are rich in carbohydrates, in fact, they give the third-highest yield of carbohydrates per unit area, only beaten by sugarcane and sugar beets. It is used for tiredness, and dehydration ...