| dc.contributor.author | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-17T08:43:12Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-17T08:43:12Z | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49142 | en_US |
| dc.title | Cassava thrives in semi-arid areas of Africa | en_US |
| cg.subject.cta | CROPS | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | High yielding and drought-resistant cassava varieties are now giving fresh hopes of food self-sufficiency ecological zones of Africa which are so often prone to crop failure as a result of drought and poor soils. Cassava is being introduced in the... | en_US |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_US |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | CTA. 1993. Cassava thrives in semi-arid areas of Africa . Spore 45. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands. | en_US |
| dcterms.description | High yielding and drought-resistant cassava varieties are now giving fresh hopes of food self-sufficiency ecological zones of Africa which are so often prone to crop failure as a result of drought and poor soils.
Cassava is being introduced in the Sahelian region not only for food security but also gradually to replace maize for industrial starch production, and sugar cane for industrial alcohol production, thereby releasing these crops for human consumption.
Areas of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger northern Nigeria and Senegal that currently have an annual rainfall of 500mm or less, can now successfully produce large quantities of the newly-developed drought-resistant cassava varieties.
Farmers in the region have already expressed enthusiasm at the introduction of cassava to their farming systems.
At Minjibir village, 30 minutes drive north-east of Kano in Nigeria, drought-resistant cassava varieties were the only crops with green leaves which were found to flourish during the dry season.
When harvested after 12 months the yields were comparable to those obtained in the rainforest zones of southern Nigeria.
IITA PMB 5320 Ibadan NIGERIA | en_US |
| dcterms.isPartOf | Spore | en_US |
| dcterms.issued | 1993 | en_US |
| dcterms.language | en | en_US |
| dcterms.publisher | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| dcterms.type | News Item | en_US |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en_US |
| cg.identifier.url | http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta45e/ | en_US |
| cg.place | Wageningen, The Netherlands | en_US |
| cg.coverage.region | Sahel | en_US |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | en_US |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en_US |
| cg.journal | Spore | en_US |
| cg.issn | 1011-0054 | en_US |
| cg.number | 45 | en_US |
