Cassava farming has become big commercial business. There are opportunities for the roots to be processed into various products, including cassava flour, starch, and ethanol and glucose syrup. DANIEL ...

Felicien Simpunga grew up in the Ruhango district of Rwanda, where life and making a living revolved around agriculture. While he grows other crops such as beans and sweet potatoes for home use, ...

JOHANNESBURG, June 7 (Reuters) - The seeds of prosperity for some rural Africans may lie in a crop that has sustained them with calories for centuries but has generated virtually no wealth for their ...

Update: Lesser Evil announced on June 13, 2024, that it would phase out the use of cassava flour in its Lil’ Puffs line of products, saying it was "dismayed by the recent news" that some of its ...

The FINANCIAL — Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, August 13, 2018 — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, signed a partnership agreement with SP Brewery for an innovative project to grow cassava and ...

Cassava is Nigeria’s second most important staple crop, involving over 300,000 stakeholders, primarily smallholder farmers. Despite its vast commercial potential, the market remains underdeveloped and ...

Wee District, Grand Bassa County- the United Community Agriculture Cooperative Society (UCACS) has become the singular most important supplier of improved cassava cuttings in Wee District, following a ...

Cassava produces about ten times more carbohydrates than most cereals per unit area, and are ideal for production in marginal and drought prone areas, the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The seeds of prosperity for some rural Africans may lie in a crop that has sustained them with calories for centuries but has generated virtually no wealth for their poor ...