The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn ... It begins with grinding cassava’s starchy roots on shredding boards ...

These days, the drought-resistant crop is also touted as having health benefits - cassava root is gluten-free, high in vitamin C and rich in copper. I don't know if cassava remains branded as food ...

Infected roots in cassava crops are often undetectable until a year after planting. The cassava mosaic and brown streak diseases are transmitted by the whitefly or propagate from one season’s crop to ...

In such areas, the bigger part of the stem cutting should be buried in the soil to encourage deep root formation. Cassava-spacing depends on the farming system adopted: such as mono-crop or intercrop.

Amani Wajane Women Group from Mande village in Vitengeni within Kilifi County display cassava roots after uprooting ... because it is a drought-resistant crop. The aim of the project is to help ...

Uncovering a cassava root, Juma splits it open with one swing of his hoe. He sighs—the creamy white flesh is streaked with brown, rotting starch. To save enough of the crop to sell and to feed ...

Difficulties in properly estimating crop productivity in particular are further compounded by the length and frequency of harvesting for certain types of crops such as cassava, which are harvested in ...

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 ...