The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is ...

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 ...

Manchester scientists are partnering with local farmers in east Africa to identify and reduce viral disease outbreaks among cassava crops using artificial intelligence (AI). How viral disease ...

Cassava Frog Skin Disease (CFSD), responsible for significant crop losses across the Americas, is a viral disease associated with previously unidentified torradovirus infections. Cassava Witches ...

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 ...

Develop and disseminate pest management technologies and systems for producing healthy seedlings In recent years, climate change and the rapid acceleration of global trade have led to increasing crop ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...