The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn ... It begins with grinding cassava’s starchy roots on shredding boards ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

In such areas, the bigger part of the stem cutting should be buried in the soil to encourage deep root formation. Cassava-spacing depends on the farming system adopted: such as mono-crop or intercrop.

Uncovering a cassava root, Juma splits it open with one swing of his hoe. He sighs—the creamy white flesh is streaked with brown, rotting starch. To save enough of the crop to sell and to feed ...

A new genomic study reveals how Indigenous traditional farming practices have shaped the evolution of manioc – one of the world’s most important staple crops – for the better. The domestication of ...

Similar patterns of cassava diversity were found across the different areas of the Amazon region and Caribbean; this is unusual as regional genetic variation is common in widespread crops.

Members of the International Cassava Genetic Map Consortium (Left to right): Jessen Bredeson, UC Berkeley; Kahya Shuaibu, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Nigeria ...

Amani Wajane Women Group from Mande village in Vitengeni within Kilifi County display cassava roots after uprooting ... because it is a drought-resistant crop. The aim of the project is to help ...

Infected roots in cassava crops are often undetectable until a year after planting. The cassava mosaic and brown streak diseases are transmitted by the whitefly or propagate from one season’s crop to ...