{"id":17599,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/project-to-boost-cassava-production-in-africa-through-agronomic-practices-launched-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:11:28","slug":"project-to-boost-cassava-production-in-africa-through-agronomic-practices-launched-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/project-to-boost-cassava-production-in-africa-through-agronomic-practices-launched-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Project to boost cassava production in Africa through agronomic practices launched in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) \u2014 Taking Agronomy to Scale in Cassava-Based Systems in sub-Saharan Africa, seeking to address this challenge and support smallholder farmers to increase production of cassava through developing good agronomic recommendations, recently launched its activities in Tanzania.\n
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Central Africa Hub Director Bernard Vanlauwe being interviewed by the media<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nSpeaking during the project launch at the beginning of this month,\u00a0Bernard Vanlauwe<\/a><\/u>, IITA\u2019s Director for Central Africa and research leader of natural resource management, said there is a popular myth that cassava does not need fertilizers and can be grown on poor soils. However, if the crop\u2019s production has to increase for food and industrial use, this perception has to change.\n\nThis was reiterated by guest of honor Hussein Mansoor, Director of Research and Development at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. He noted that much investment in cassava production had gone into development of improved high-yielding disease-resistant varieties and less on cassava agronomy, and thus the persistent high yield gap.\n\n\u201cWith the need to intensify cassava production in areas where population densities have reduced access to land for agriculture and with cassava roots becoming an important raw material for the processing sector, the yield gap needs to be reduced. This requires investments in inputs and labor and access to fresh root markets or value-adding processing markets to ensure that farming households can generate the income required,\u201d he said.\n\nLawrence Kent<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Fondation Gates<\/u><\/a>\u00a0said the Foundation was keen on the project due to the link between improved varieties and good agronomic practices.\n\n\u201cBy developing improved varieties, we are only addressing half the problem. Low yields in farmers\u2019 fields are a result of poor varieties and poor agronomic practices,\u201d Kent said to the meeting participants via Skype. He also commended the project for its clear link between\nresearch and uptake of the findings and between research and extension and demand-driven approach by working with partners in the cassava value chain to addressing their priorities and concerns.\n\nACAI seeks to improve cassava yields, cassava root quality, cassava supply to the processing sector, and fertilizer sales, and have over 100,000 households in Nigeria and Tanzania benefiting and creating a value of over US$27 million in the next five years. This value will result from increased yield of cassava and associated crops (due to intercropping), higher starch content, more continuous supply of the roots, and use of fertilizers among others. The project will also be implemented in Uganda and Ghana.\n\nPartners in Tanzania include\u00a0Cassava Adding Value for Africa<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(C:AVA),\u00a0Farm Concern International<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(FCI),\u00a0Mennonite Economic Development Associates<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(MEDA), and\u00a0Minjingu Mines & Fertilizers Ltd.<\/a><\/u>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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