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Developing a clean seed system for sweetpotato and cassava: A Bio-Innovate Program initiative
April 23, 2015 Editor 0
Moses Njiriri with virus free sweetpotato vines to sell to other farmers (Photo credit: Albert Mwangi/Bio-Innovate) In most of Africa, sweetpotato and cassava are the staple food and nutrition security crops that play a key role as food security and income generating crops particularly when the mainstream crops e.g. cereals have poor harvests. Cassava is […]
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Developing a clean system for sweetpotato and cassava: A Bio-Innovate Program initiative
May 15, 2014 Editor 0
In most of Africa, sweetpotato and cassava are the staple food and nutrition security crops that play a key role as food security and income generating crops particularly when the mainstream crops e.g. cereals have poor harvests. Cassava is versatile and can also be used for non-food purposes. Extracted starch and other derivatives are used […]
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Bio-Innovate produces new and elite sweetpotato clones for smallholder famers to mitigate climate change
February 2, 2014 Editor 0
A team of scientists from Makerere University School of Agricultural Sciences working with Abeteraine Farmers Group in Hoima District, Uganda and funded by the Bio-Innovate Program under the potato, sweetpotato and cassava project – has successfully develop high yielding, drought tolerant and disease resistant sweet potato genotypes. The new genotypes named KSP series; Kabanyolo Sweetpotato after the […]
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Scientists alarmed by rapid spread of Brown Streak Disease in cassava
May 11, 2013 Editor 0
World’s cassava experts to wage war against cassava viruses; introduction into Nigeria, the largest cassava producer in the world, could result in drastic food shortages in this part of Africa BELLAGIO, ITALY (6 MAY 2013)— Cassava experts are reporting new outbreaks and the increased spread of Cassava Brown Streak Disease or CBSD, warning that the rapidly […]
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Innovations for Agricultural Value Chains in Africa
February 3, 2013 Editor 0
Applying Science and Technology to Enhance Cassava, Dairy, and Maize Value Chains: Value Chain Examples Cassava Value Chain Meridian Institute has developed a Cassava Value Chain Overview Paper to provide a brief introduction to this critically important crop in sub-Saharan Africa and to highlight key constraints. To provide context for those constraints, the paper begins […]
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East African cassava research gets major funding boost
December 21, 2012 Editor 0
Research into two deadly cassava diseases affecting crops in East Africa has received US$10.6 million to help develop resistant strains. Go to Source
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