Using the famous CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissors, plant biotechnologists at ETH Zurich have been able to improve cassava. The new variety has amylose-free or 'waxy' starch, which is preferred by industry.

Drone technology has been recently introduced in Cambodia’s cassava cultivations to help small-scale farmers earn better yield while bringing down the costs of farm input. Cassava is the most ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and representatives of the bitter cassava and casabe production chain agreed on measures to ...

Farmers from Ruhango and Bugesera districts have seen cassava yields increase from 10-15kilograms to as much as 80-100 kilogrammes per plant through wider spacing, improved soil preparation and ...

Jalandhar: Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh and Sultanpur Lodhi MLA Rana Inder Partap Singh on Monday visited Malsian village near Shahkot to encourage farmers to adopt cassava (manihot esculenta) ...

Over 70 per cent of small-holder farmers are engaged in cassava production. A non-governmental organisation, African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), is striving to ensure that commercial ...

BUSIA COUNTY, Kenya — On a July midmorning, Jennifer Maasai, a 62-year-old small-scale farmer, inspected her cassava farm below the rocky Akites Hills, in Kenya’s Busia County, not far from the border ...

A research team has proposed inbred-parent–based hybrid cassava breeding to overcome the challenges of heterozygous parent use, aiming to transform cassava breeding by purging deleterious mutations ...

When Arab traders introduced cassava — a nutty-flavoured root vegetable, rich in vitamins, minerals and protein — in the late 1860s to what is now Uganda, little did they suspect that it would become ...

A new cassava workshop at the Cayo Levantado Resort in the Dominican Republic will highlight the history of the root vegetable and enable guests to bake their own cassava bread. Photo Credit: Cayo ...

Cassava farming is increasingly taking root in Kilifi county with acreage under the crop increasing each year. This is after the Kilifi county government completed the construction of a Sh25 million ...