Uganda Uganda: Farmers boost income with high quality cassava flour Williams Moi | January 20, 2020 It’s noon and Joyce Otim is standing on her farm, looking at her healthy cassava plants and smiling. She’s happy […]
Cassava is wealth: New harmonized standards for processing cassava flour in East and Central Africa admin | January 13, 2019 This week’s Farmer stories from Senegal and Kenya focus on processing raw foods to increase their value, extend their shelf […]
Congo-Brazzaville Congo: Farmers in Kifouma rely on bitter cassava for improved production Fresnel Bongol Tsimba | July 30, 2018 It is very cold, but Hermann Ntsassa braves the morning chill to visit his cassava field in Kifouma, a small […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Farmers start growing cassava as a cash crop because of high demand Enos Lufungulo | July 16, 2018 It’s evening, but Joram Mikanda is still in his field, checking to see if his cassava has matured enough to […]
Processing cassava brings wealth to farmers admin | July 16, 2018 In this week’s Farmer story from Tanzania, we learned that high demand is motivating farmers to grow cassava commercially. Our […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Women farmers look for flexible loans to expand cassava operations Lilian Madelemo | March 5, 2018 It is just past noon in Kongo village in Pwani Region, about 60 kilometres north of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Village cassava processing means more profit for farmers Lilian Madelemo | February 5, 2018 Anna Macha sits in the shade of her shop in Kongo village, eastern Tanzania, when a woman approaches and asks […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Radio and SMS help cassava farmers adapt to drought Gaudensia Mngumi | December 11, 2017 At her home in Janga village in Kibaha district on the coast of Tanzania, Rehema Mwamchela looks at her fields, […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Farmers boost incomes by multiplying new cassava varieties Jaime Little | October 16, 2017 Sitting in the shade of the village clinic, Mwanahawa Akida Ali runs her fingers lightly along a ridge of scars […]
Rwanda Rwanda: Farmers in need get free disease-resistant cassava (The New Times) admin | October 16, 2017 Jean Paul Sebarera had given up on growing cassava after brown streak disease, known locally as kabore, devastated plantations in […]