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Improving Community livelihood through improved Cassava production
… Improving Community livelihood through improved cassava production in Ngeta village, Kikongo Ward, Ruvu Division, Kibaha District - Coast Region. The Project Goal is enhancement of living standard of Ngeta village community at household level by raising income, employment opportunities, and food …
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Biological Evaluation and Detoxification of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz)
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Application of CNN-gcForestCS to cassava leaf image classification
Cassava is one of the most consumed carbohydrates in the world, providing a reliable source of income and nutrition to inhabitants of Latin America, Africa and Asia. However, its production is greatly affected by pathogenic infection with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) posing the greatest threat to …
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Mining disease resistance genes in cassava using next-generation sequencing
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) remains a major threat to cassava productivity hence to food security and livelihood of over half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa. Exploitation of natural resistance is generally accepted as the most sustainable means to control the disease. Most of the …
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Understanding the influence of livelihood features on cassava value chains
More than 70% of Ghanaian farmers depend on cassava farming and processing as part of their livelihood activities. The study sought to identify the actors in the cassava value chains, how their livelihood features influence upgrading in the value chains and also, factors that farmers consider in …
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Virus-host interactions in the cassava brown streak disease pathosystem
… understand the virus-host plant interactions for cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) caused by two viruses, Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and Ugandan Cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV) of the genus Ipomovirus, family Potyviridae. The diversity of six CBSD isolates from the endemic (Kenya, …
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LEVERAGING EVOLUTION TO UNDERSTAND GENETIC LOAD IN CASSAVA (MANIHOT ESCULENTA)
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a root crop that serves as an important caloric source for many tropical regions of the world. Cassava was domesticated 5k-10k years ago where it transitioned from being a perennial, outcrossing species to a crop grown as an annual or biannual and is propagated …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
… and contributing significantly to its GDP. Cassava is a national priority crop for Uganda and remains a globally competitive source of food, nutrition and income security as well as an industrial commodity due to its unique attributes. However, its productivity remains inadequate due to low …
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Cassava, Coconut and Curry: Food and National Identity in Post-Colonial Fiji
… of differences. Through foods, such as rice, cassava, coconut and curry, a culinary experience is shared by all peoples of Fiji. These foods, despite their origins, are consumed by everyone. Food in Fiji has become an area of the national identity in which it is possible for all people to be …
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Cassava Seed Multiplication for a sustainable income for farmers in Madanga Village
… causes of the need, multiplication of resistant cassava seeds was identified as a project that will enable them increase their income through sale of multiplied seeds and at the same time increase their production hence improved livelihoods. The study concludes that the communities can use their …
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Developing starter cultures for the optimisation of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) fermentation
… study was to optimise natural fermentation of cassava through development of starter cultures of lactic acid cassava bacteria (LAB) and softening bacteria to address quality variations of the end product, in terms of acidification and softening inconsistencies. Several natural fermentations of …
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An economic evaluation of the European communities' import quota on Thai cassava
Cassava has become one of the most important crops for the Thai economy since the mid 1970's. It is produced mainly for export as a grain substitute for livestock feed in the European Community (EC). Cassava imports by the EC are clearly a case of "trade diversion" resulting from the EC's Common …
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Predicting the Spread and Management of the Cassava Brown Streak Disease Epidemic
Cassava Brown Streak disease (CBSD) is a viral disease of cassava that causes necrosis of the edible root tissue, which reduces both consumable and marketable yield. In 2004, CBSD emerged in Uganda and has since been spreading rapidly through previously unaffected regions of East Africa and into …
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Development of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) leaf meal as an animal feed
… Lanka to evaluate the feasibility of developing cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) leaf meal as an animal feed. In feeding trials with broilers, improvements in performance were observed at 10% inclusion of cassava leaf meal (CLM). High levels (20 and 30%) of CLM depressed gain, feed intake and …
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Exploring the potential of cassava for agricultural growth and economic development in Nigeria
… This study investigates the potential of cassava root tuber (CRT), as a means to promote agricultural growth. It assesses cassava production, profitability, efficiency, marketing structures and channels, constraints in production, the potential to add value by processing cassava into gari …
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Molecular diagnostics, genetic diversity and generating infectious clones for cassava brown streak viruses
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) threatens cassava production in eastern and southern African countries. Diagnostic protocols currently available for the causal agents of CBSD, Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and Cassava brown streak Uganda virus (CBSUV), were unreliable but were urgently …
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The effects of relative planting dates of legumes on productivity of cassava - legume intercrop
… in the smallholder sector. The incorporation of cassava into the existing cropping systems could be beneficia!. However, cassava is a long duration erop that develops slowly during its early growth stages. Therefore, it may be necessary to introduce legumes that will grow and be harvested before …
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