In a move aimed at reducing post-harvest losses and strengthening food security, Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese Plant, has commissioned and handed over a multi-million-naira cassava processing facility to ...

That puts millions of farmers who rely on the crop in a difficult position. The farmers can't plant more than they can sell quickly in local markets, and they're often forced to sell below market ...

On the left is Rector, Kwara state polytechnic Engr Dr Abdul Jimoh Mohammed holding cassava with the polytechnics Chairperson Commercial Farm and Chief lecturer in the department of Agricultural and ...

Cassava produces about ten times more carbohydrates than most cereals per unit area, and are ideal for production in marginal and drought prone areas, the Kenya Agriculture 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 Witches' Broom Disease (CWBD), a harvest-reducing pathogen originating in Southeast Asia, has crossed the Pacific and has been detected in French Guiana and Brazil. It is a fungal disease ...

African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and partners are set to inaugurate a cutting-edge cassava processing plant in Oyo State to transform cassava production and processing in Southwest, ...

It celebrates bumper harvests while importing starch, chocolate, pharmaceutical ingredients, cooking oils, flavourings and industrial chemicals made from the very crops it exports. The result is a ...