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 ...

Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west ...

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St. Louis, MO, February 7, 2023 — Cassava is one of the most important crops in the tropics, feeding half a billion people in more than 80 countries. Cassava bacterial blight (CBB) is a devastating ...

Mzimba district agriculture crops officer Julius Banda has advised farmers to diversify their crops during the 2025/26 ...

Instead of dying of starvation households in drought-hit Ganze in Kilifi County have opted to embrace genetically modified cassava. Members of Mali Shambani Aggregation Group have warmed up to the new ...

The team created a border-to-border map of Thailand’s four major crops — rice, cassava, sugarcane, and maize — and determined which of the four types was grown, at every 10 meters, and without gaps, ...