Cassava root has a nutty flavor and a very high starch content, which makes its ground-up flour perfect for combatting ...

There are two main root vegetables in West Africa - cassava and yam. Cassava is available all year round, it is cheap and is known, or to put it correctly, was known as food for the poor.

Yam, cassava need govt’s intervention to meet demands – AFAN President. The National President, All Farmers Association, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, hinted that the group have been lobbying for the ...

A staple in indigenous communities in Guyana, the versatile cassava is a sturdy, starchy root vegetable, similar in appearance to that of a yam, that. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...

Since the past three years Nigeria has been leading globally in the production of yam, palm oil, cassava, maize and rice, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Agriculture and Rural ...

There have been concerns over the consumption of root tubers like cassava, yam and cocoyam found at gold mining sites. This is because many believe the heavy metals have the potential to be ...

Armed men suspected to be Fulani herders have destroyed yam seedlings and cassava farms worth millions of Naira in Chembe village, Gaambetiev, Logo Local Government area of Benue State.

Cassava is available all year round, it is cheap and is known, or to put it correctly, was known as food for the poor. The other popular one is yam, which Nigerian author Chinua Achebe famously ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene considers the call of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni for people to eat the humble cassava as the price of wheat ...