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 ...

When I first encountered a cassava plant, it was love at first sight, and over the years, my affection for this graceful and highly useful perennial has only increased. Inside the US, cassava is ...

Cassava leaves are edible if cooked and contain up to 25% protein. The leaves are dark green with red highlights. They are shaped kind of like a hand with long pointy fingers; the stalk is kind of ...

The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Regional Democratic Council #9 invested in a cassava planter among other equipment to maximize the efficiency of farming in ...

Scientists might demonstrate the potential benefits of editing plant genes by altering cassava so it no longer poisons and cripples people in the Southern Hemisphere, California microbiologist Michael ...

Cassava, banana and plantain, staple foods for millions of the world’s poorest people, are notoriously difficult to breed. But an international team of scientists aims to change that, using a ...

Cassava is one of the world’s most important starch crops. The storage roots feed more than 500 million people, and they are also used in many other important applications, for instance in paper ...

A DRY cassava processing plant is under construction in Banteay Meanchey's Svay Chek district, which local businessmen say will help cassava farmers and boost the domestic industry. The 6-hectare ...