Cassava is a staple food for millions of people across Africa and a major source of income and employment for farmers. There are efforts to create an effective cassava entrepreneurship system to boost ...

Mzee Raphael Owaka’s (pictured) love for cassava farming is simply impressive. While other farmers have invested in exotic crops, he has stuck to good old cassava in his farm in Nyabondo, Upper ...

Cassava farming is increasingly taking root in Kilifi county with acreage under the crop increasing each year. This is after the Kilifi county government completed the construction of a Sh25 million ...

TONGWE, Tanzania (AlertNet) - Changing weather patterns have forced farmers in Muheza district in Tanzania to move away from growing traditional crops and switch to cassava, which is playing an ...

WWF Care Alliance has handed over a cassava milling machine to Umumbo and Kazi Tu groups in Nachingwea District Council. The milling machine will guarantee value addition to cassava produced by the ...

Beer and spirits have a long history of turning crops into currency for poor farmers. America’s own frontier farmers distilled corn into whiskey as insurance against hard times. Now a brewing company ...

National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Agbeyewa Farms on the launch a Joint Venture partnership on land development for cassava ...

Seeing is believing, and when neighbouring farmers visit Theogene Ntakarutimana’s cassava farm in central Burundi, on what is increasingly arid terrain, they are often speechless. “Everyone who visits ...

PHNOM PENH: (Bernama) Cambodian farmers are transforming cassava cultivation into a lucrative industry in a big boost to the rural economy and the agriculture sector. Once considered a subsistence ...

Cassava farmers in Nkhata Bay District are counting losses following an outbreak of cassava brown streak virus which has ...