East African Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP) plans to construct a cassava processing plant in Simba Chai area of Teso South sub-county. The facility which will cost Sh10 million is expected ...

A UA research team has taken the first step toward saving a food source that hundreds of millions of people rely upon. By unlocking the cassava plant genome, the team hopes to combat a disease that ...

Farmers in Teso South constituency, Busia County, are counting losses after their cassava started rotting in the farms due to a lack of market. They claim they risk losing millions of shillings if ...

The project is said to be in tandem with the resolve of President Bola Tinubu to enhance food security in Nigeria. Dr Jumai Adamu-Tutuwa, the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal ...

Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has said a proposed cassava-based ethanol plant will be a game changer that will catalyse growth in many sectors of the economy. He ...

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 ...

Wee District, Grand Bassa County- the United Community Agriculture Cooperative Society (UCACS) has become the singular most important supplier of improved cassava cuttings in Wee District, following a ...

A study published Monday by a team of campus researchers, in conjunction with researchers from other institutions, aims to improve existing knowledge of the cassava genome. According to the study, ...

The cassava mosaic virus disease (CMD) is considered the most devastating disease of cassava in Africa. Annual yield loose on the continent amount to over 2.2 billion tonnes of storage root, at a cost ...

The project is said to be in tandem with the resolve of President Bola Tinubu to enhance food security in Nigeria. The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the institute, Dr Jumai Adamu-Tutuwa, ...