Young farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are testing a new variety of cassava coupled with improved agricultural techniques to improve the country’s food security
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New cassava variety offers exciting opportunities to DRC farmers
Posted by Agro2 on May 3rd, 2012
Posted in Cassava News, Cassava/Yuca 
Tags: africa, binage, cassava, cassava variety, cultivation methods, development, DRC, farmers, Farming, food, intercropping, production, varieties 
2 Comments »Resistant Cassavas Still On
Posted by Agro2 on February 10th, 2011
It is estimated that viruses are causing $60m in losses per, annum out of the revenue contribution the government is supposed to realise from the production of cassava. That is why Ugandan scientists are investigating ways to come up with cassava varieties resistant to cassava mosaic virus and cassava brown streak. The team still has [...]
Cassava – a Multi-Purpose Plant
Posted by Agro2 on February 6th, 2011
Nigeria is making use of its cassava crop to diversify its economy Cassava is Africa’s most important staple food crop, after maize, and Africa produces half of the world’s supply. The plant is used to make a starchy food called gari, and it is also a source for biofuel as well as animal feed. Nigeria [...]
Biotechnology to help speed up Cassava breed
Posted by Agro2 on January 20th, 2011
Breeding new plant varieties via conventional methods usually takes more than a decade, but with the assistance of biotechnology, the Thai Tapioca Development Institute (TTDI) hopes using a DNA fingerprint will shorten the time for cassava strain development and result in new varieties for specific uses. A DNA fingerprint will be applied to match different [...]
Posted in Cassava News Tags: Biotechnology, breed, cassava, help, News, speed, starch, varieties No Comments »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 in the News: Project Unleashes High Yielding Cassava Variety
Posted by Agro2 on December 13th, 2010
The Nation-Africa reported yesterday that the International Institute of Tropical agriculture launched the Cassava Planting Materials Distribution campaign at Wimbe in Kasungu, Malawi. The campaign is part of the IITA’s Unleashing the Power of Cassava in Africa (UPOCA) project.
Posted in Cassava News, Cassava/Yuca Tags: africa, agriculture, cassava, Change, Climate, desertification, food, planting, security, seed, varieties, yielding No Comments »Growing Cassava at the Agro TecMont Test Plots
Posted by Agro2 on December 10th, 2010
Last weekend Agro2 toured its test cassava plot, where, in collaboration with TecMont, it is growing 13 different varieties of cassava and testing them for various characteristics.
Posted in Agro2 Updates Tags: agro2, cassava, distillation, growing, ISCC, plot, sustainability, varieties No Comments »Cassava in the News: Ministry Introduces New Cassava Varieties
Posted by Agro2 on December 8th, 2010
Source: Ghana News Agency – Earlier this week Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture introduced three new varieties of cassava that yielded between 43-49 tons per hectare as compared to the local varieties, which yield between 10-15 tonnes per hectare. The varieties are used mainly for starch. Geshon Wordzria, Municipal Drector at the Ministry of [...]
Posted in Cassava News, Cassava/Yuca Tags: agriculture, cassava, ghana, varieties, yield 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 »Cassava varieties, feedstocks and Collaboration
Posted by Agro2 on October 19th, 2010
If you check out our Flickr, you can see the work we’ve done on testing new varieties, along with our partner TecMont. We currently have 12 varieties that we are monitoring for characteristics like starch content, sweetness, moisture content, average root length, soil preferences, etc. Next month we will begin performing starch analyses on the [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News, Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: agro2, cassava, ethanol, farm, fuel, innovation, Panama, root, starch, sustainability, varieties, yuca 2 Comments »
