A UA research team has taken the first step toward saving a food source that hundreds of millions of people rely upon. By unlocking the cassava plant genome, the team hopes to combat a disease that ...

East African Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP) plans to construct a cassava processing plant in Simba Chai area of Teso South sub-county. The facility which will cost Sh10 million is expected ...

Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has said a proposed cassava-based ethanol plant will be a game changer that will catalyse growth in many sectors of the economy. He ...

A study published Monday by a team of campus researchers, in conjunction with researchers from other institutions, aims to improve existing knowledge of the cassava genome. According to the study, ...

The cassava mosaic virus disease (CMD) is considered the most devastating disease of cassava in Africa. Annual yield loose on the continent amount to over 2.2 billion tonnes of storage root, at a cost ...