Kenyans love their maize and wheat products. Every meal of protein is accompanied by either ugali or chapati. But herein lies the problem. Owing to a number of factors, the two staple foods cannot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grower shows off his lush cassava garden. Stephen Wooding, CC BY-ND The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice ...

Crop breeders are always looking for ways to improve a crop. They know that even small differences in quality and quantity can mean big differences in profits for farmers. So, making the breeding ...

Cassava Market is entering a decade of steady, resilient expansion, positioning the humble root crop as one of the most strategically important commodities in the global food and industrial supply ...

Cassava, a major crop in Nigeria has been a subject of discussion over the years as the crop has the potential to catalyse industrial revolution due to its high economic value which boasts of a viable ...

That meant that their yields were always low and the crop prone to attacks. But that is no longer the case thanks to an initiative that has been promoting cassava as a healthy alternative to maize.

The three staple crops dominating modern diets—corn, rice and wheat—are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous peoples ...