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20/01/2016 Eaten by both humans and animals, and with more than 20 derivative products, cassava offers considerable opportunities for income and advantages for food security. This versatile shrub is widely used in the food, textiles and other industries. For example, cassava tubers may be sold for...
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1/01/1998 This contains examples of food from cassava. 40 pages, illustrated, photos
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1/01/1967 This publication reports on experiments conducted to determine the growth response of Holstein and Zebu cattle to supplemented and unsupplemented fresh or ensiled sugarcane tops. Supplements studied were molasses, cassava and cottonseed meal. 32 pages, illustrated, photos
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19/01/1997 the field pack, consisting of this field guide and eight flash cards, gives details of low cost, village-level methods for processing cassava roots. The field guide contains practical descriptions of cassava processing. The eight flash cards illustrate processing steps. The aim is to provide...
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The research reported here aimed to collect basic information on the characteristics of erosion processes in a defined area of the Andean zone of Colombia.
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This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO's "Save and Grow" model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensifies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding...
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The purpose of this book is to present a strategy for increasing the income of small farmers and generating socioeconomic development in tropical regions. The strategy consists of setting up an integrated development project for catalyzing technical, financial, and organizational resources so...
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This book describes the crop and its uses and the technology available for its production and processing.
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Cassava is Africa's "poverty fighter" and second most important food crop. This book discusses Cassava's real role and traces research over the past 65 years. The "Cassava transformation" that is now underway in Africa has changed this traditional, reserve crop to a high-yield cash crop. However,...
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1/01/1991 Biological control of the cassava mealybug involved the classical approach, from foreignexploration, biological studies, mass rearing, and release to monitoring and impact studies. The special attention given to quanfity observations on all trophic levels in a holistic approach transformed the...