Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) are two viral diseases that cause severe yield losses in cassava of up to 100 percent, thereby persistently threatening food and ...

Amidst the looming food crisis across the country, Augustine Akutu’s home is akin to an oasis overflowing with cassava tubers. When you visit his home in Amuria District you will mistake it for a rich ...

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 ...

In a recent breakthrough, DNA sequencing technology has uncovered the culprit behind cassava witches' broom disease: the fungus genus Ceratobasidium. The cutting-edge nanopore technology used for this ...

A nutty-flavored, starchy root vegetable, cassava (also known as yuca) is one of the most drought-resistant crops and is a major source of calories and carbs for people in developing countries, ...

Five new cassava varieties developed with support from NextGen Cassava have been approved for release in Nigeria. This was contained in a recent report by NextGen Cassava Breeding Project, an ...

For instance, whereas CBSD could be found in up to 70 per cent of fields with old cassava varieties, zero or nearly zero per cent of the fields with the new varieties has the deadly disease. The ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said only farmers who grow improved disease-free cassava stems will have access to the N25 billion facility it has created to boost cassava production in Nigeria.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. When Arab traders introduced cassava — a nutty-flavoured ...