Farmers commend IITA for improved cassava varieties
Nigerian farmers have commended the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for giving them improved cassava planting materials…
Nigerian farmers have commended the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for giving them improved cassava planting materials…
Researchers and key partners working under the Support for Agricultural Research and Development for Strategic Crops (SARD-SC) have kicked off activities to improve the productivity of cassava by at least 20 percent in project sites, increase household incomes and food security, and make the root crop work for the poor…
The “Making Agricultural Innovations Work for Smallholder Farmers Affected by HIV/AIDS” – or MIRACLE – a project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and implemented by IITA has commissioned four small-scale cassava processing centers in Luapula Province in the northern part of Zambia…
The Japanese Embassy in Nigeria has agreed to join efforts with IITA and the Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) to help farmers…
Cameroon and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have agreed to join forces more than ever before to improve agriculture, create wealth and reduce poverty in both rural and urban areas…
Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have launched three new projects today to support efforts to develop cassava varieties with resistance to Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and to establish more sustainable seed systems to enable smallholder farmers better access to such varieties…
The push for a “Green Revolution” in Africa to increase agricultural production for food and economic development will not bear much fruit if adequate attention is not paid to managing soil fertility in the continent, says Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture…
The Cameroonian government has released five new improved cassava varieties to help improve the food security of millions of people in the country….
Cassava stakeholders in Tanzania called on the country’s top leadership to champion the crop to transform the country’s agricultural sector and catalyze its economic development. They emphasized that the crop, if well exploited under a national cassava development platform, can help fight poverty and hunger in the country. They appealed to Tanzania’s highest office to commit to and support this initiative…
The Nigerian Government announced on Wednesday the release of three new vitamin A-enriched ‘yellow’ cassava varieties that could provide more vitamin A in the diets of more than 70 million Nigerians who eat the root crop everyday. The yellow color (cassava is generally white) is due to the higher vitamin A content…