William Simiyu from Busia County has been growing cassava for the last four years for commercial purposes. He shares with Money Maker the process from planting to harvesting. Choose a variety ...

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

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah, toured the European Union-funded cassava breeder seed garden or multiplication site established at the Central Agriculture Research Institute ...

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 ...

The crop is cultivated primarily by smallholder farmers, however its production is affected by two common viral diseases: the cassava mosaic and brown streak disease. These can be transmitted plant to ...

During a recent visit to the state, PREMIUM TIMES observed how farmers take advantage of the sunlight typical in northern Nigeria to help preserve their cassava.

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 ...

“Everyone who visits my farm and sees the way I am farming and producing cassava — they get excited,” says Theogene Ntakarutimana, a farmer in Burundi who started growing cassava using methods ...

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.” ...

There is a lot of cassava in Siaya however, it is considered a poor man's crop. "Most people don't grow cassava because there's no market for it. So I wanted to change that narrative and offer a ...