Cassava’s humble appearance, however, belies an impressive combination of productivity, toughness and diversity. Over the ...

[Collins Oduor, Standard] Cassava is a versatile crop that has several uses in the African context. It can withstand the harshest growing conditions and still yield considerably as compared to ...

Kola says she never imagined that a crop like cassava, which was being grown for domestic consumption could change her economic fortunes. It has been a struggle growing the crop but now things are ...

Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on a six-foot-high plant. “Or too much sun.” ...

Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol. More from Big Business Nigeria is the globe's ...

Cassava’s humble appearance, however, belies an impressive combination of productivity, toughness and diversity. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous peoples bred it from a weedy wild plant into a ...