Across the tropics, farming communities—an estimated 800 million people—rely on cassava for food and income. However, in ...

Though cassava is easy to cultivate, it is particularly vulnerable to plant pathogens, which can significantly reduce crop yields. These images complement a paper including UC Berkeley and DOE JGI ...

But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on ...

According to the farmer cassava is a hardy crop and has an extensive root system that enables it to grow in poor soils. It draws a large number of nutrients like nitrogen (N), potassium (K ...

Global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and outpaced world population growth between 1961 and 2022 ...

climate change and the rapid acceleration of global trade have led to increasing crop damage from invasive pests worldwide, with South East Asian cassava crops no exception. We aim to develop pest ...

Cassava is an important food and cash crop for small-holder farmers in Africa. It is the second most important staple food crop after maize in sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately one-third of the ...

Agriculture Executive Moses Mwanje has appealed to farmers to plant cassava crop on large scale since the region has high potential in cassava farming. “We have to put more efforts in ...

But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on ...