According to new research by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture), southeast Asia’s multi-billion dollar cassava industry and thousands of small scale farmers could be severely threatened by global warming which might trigger outbreaks of new invasive pests.
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Climate change threatens southeast Asia’s billion dollar cassava industry
Posted by Agro2 on April 17th, 2012
Posted in Cassava News, Cassava/Yuca, Ethanol and Sustainability 
Tags: cassava, climate change, farmers, Farming, market, pests, processing, production, research, root, southeast asia, starch, sustainable, tapioca, yuca 
No Comments »Cassava in the News: Getting to the root of Cassava’s goodness
Posted by Agro2 on December 20th, 2011
Getting to the root of Cassava’s goodness Royal Gazette By Cathy Stovell The root of Chistmas: Cassava is traditionally grated and eaten as a pie at Christmas in Bermuda. Pictured, farmer Brian (Gabre) Swan harvests a local crop. Edible leaves: The leaves of the cassava plant, despite being milky, …and more »
Posted in Cassava News Tags: cassava, cassava's, Gazette, Getting, goodness, News, root, Royal No Comments »Cassava: A Root Cause of Famine – Discovery News
Posted by Agro2 on November 23rd, 2011
African cassava may be an upcoming example of a little bit of history repeating. Harvests of the root are in danger of going the way of Ireland’s 19th century potato. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that the spread of the Cassava Brown Streak Disease may become an epidemic and cause famine, [...]
Tapioca comes from root of cassava plant
Posted by Agro2 on March 17th, 2011
Tapioca comes from root of cassava plant Victoria Advocate After weeks of being lost, he knew his chance of survival was dimming, so he decided he would eat manihot esculenta, the root of the cassava plant, which he knew would be fatal because of the cyanide-based toxin in the root. He took the plant, …
Yuca is not Yucca
Posted by Agro2 on January 10th, 2011
At Agro2, cassava, or yuca, is our business. As such, we’d like to clear the record about a very ubiquitous misconception about the manihot esculenta plant that we’ve seen all over the internet: yuca is not yucca. Yuca is actually a genus in the agave family and covers a whole range of plants that cannot be baked into pie, pone or any other delicious treats. Once and for all, let’s examine the difference between these two equally lovely, but entirely different plants.
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News Tags: cassava, cassava's, esculenta, manihot, pie, pone, root, starch, varieties, yuca, yucca No Comments »Cassava, Yams, Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes: How They Compare Pt. 4
Posted by Agro2 on December 20th, 2010
Potatoes, like the other crops we’ve discussed, are starchy. They contain chlorogenic acid, carotenoids and phytochemcias, as well as vitamin C, potassium, B6, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and zin. The potato also contains solanine, a poison that is also found in henbane, tobacco, eggplan and tomato. While this poison is toxic, it is rarely ingested to the extent to cause any symptoms in humans, except in cases of potato famines (when people have no other food than potatoes).
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava/Yuca Tags: cassava, crop, potato, root, sweet potato, yam No Comments »Cassava, Yams, Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes: How They Compare Pt. 3
Posted by Agro2 on December 20th, 2010
Today’s article is the third of a four-part series comparing cassava, yams, sweet potato, and potatoes. These four crops are similar, and a couple are even close cousins. Today, we’re discussing the Yam, which is the rogue of the group. Yams are the only one of the four crops that originates in Africa. Don’t confuse yams with sweet potatoes, they’re one hundred percent different and as such any product called a yam in the US is required by the U.S.A to also label the product as a sweet potato.
Cassava, Yams, Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes: How They Compare Pt. 2
Posted by Agro2 on December 20th, 2010
Like cassava, camote is an extremely biodiverse, and actually has more than 1,000 different species. However of these, only the I. batatas is noteworthy, as the others are highly poisonous. The camote is softer than a potato, sweet and orange in color. This color is indicative of high beta carotene content, but the camote is also rich in vitamin C and vitamin B6.
Cassava, Yams, Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes: How They Compare Pt. 1
Posted by Agro2 on December 20th, 2010
The cassava root has many uses. The sweet variety can be eaten after simply boiling or baking. Bitter cassava can be boiled into juice called cassareep, which is a type of thick spicy syrup that originates in Guyana. Cassava’s starch can also be used to make biofuels, flour, pudding, glue and other emulsifiers. The leaves and stems can also be used to make hay, and the leaves ground into a sauce called “palaver sauce. “
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News Tags: cassava, potato, root, sweet potato, variety, yam No Comments »Giant Cassava Variety Claimed in Java
Posted by Agro2 on December 6th, 2010
Cassava roots come in big and small. But a cassava variety recently found belonging to Tumarjo Gatot Kaca (65), of Central Java, took the cake. The cassava, which weighed approximately 100 kilograms, and wasaround 50 times as large as regular cassava, had a length of one meter and circumference of 50 centimeters.
Posted in Cassava News Tags: cake, cassava, gatot, giant, java, kaca, plantation, planting, root, varieties No Comments »
