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Nigeria: Production of Cassava Chips, Pellets for Exports

The purpose of this write-up is to educate/enlighten Nigerians and potential investors on the commercial viability of cassava chips and pellets production for export.The Federal Government of Nigeria has in recent times taken a number of bold steps to ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Cassava, Nigeria, Flour

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Fallacies of a transformation (III)

So, what is it that the Jonathan administration has done to truly transform Nigeria? If it has not done anything, what is it that it can do to transform Nigeria ahead of the 2015 elections?The Jonathan administration can turn to agriculture; it has been ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Nigeria, Agriculture, Niger Delta

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

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Japan To Invest $2 Billion In Africa’s Energy Projects

VENTURES AFRICA –In an effort to “catch up” with years of Chinese investment in Africa, Japan has promised to invest $2 billion in Africa’s energy and mineral projects.This emerged a two-day J-SUMIT conference held in Japan. Japan organised the conference ... [Published Ventures Africa - May 20 2013]

Entities: Japan, Standard Bank Group Ltd, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, ENERGY INVESTMENTS LIMITED, Algeria

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Iloilo media undergoes entrepreneurial training

CORE members of the Iloilo City Hall Press Corps and Capitol Press Corps recently underwent a one morning session on "Media Entrepreneurial Skills Training on Cassava Delicacies" held at the Department of Agriculture (DA) Iloilo.DA-Iloilo Director Larry ... [Published Sun Star Network - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Iloilo, Cassava, Radio Station

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Vitamin-A Cassava Stems Distribution To Oyo Farmers Gets Applaud

THE Gospel of cassava growing and production to boost food security and create jobs is fast catching on as an Oyo-based NGO, Entrepreneurial Action By Us (ENACTUS), has distributed stems of vitamin-A fortified cassava to farmers in Oyo.This time, the ... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 19 2013]

Entities: Vitamin A, Cassava, Food Security, Agriculture, Health Benefits

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Dine out Tuesday to help support Meals on Wheels

Z By The Daily News Longview Daily News5 minutes ago • By The Daily NewsDiners are encouraged to patronize 15 local restaurants Tuesday to support the Meals on Wheels program.This is the fourth year local eateries are supporting the Lower Columbia CAP ... [Published Longview Daily News - May 19 2013]

Entities: Meals On Wheels, Beecher Carlson, Pancake House, Inc., Nutrition

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Another plague besets Africa

A plant virus called cassava brown streak disease has spread across much of the African interior, reducing by as much as 50 million tons a year the harvest of a crop upon which some 500 million Africans rely for their staple food.It is hard to imagine ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Cassava, Ibadan, Cyanide

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

New threat from coconut pest

Kerala faces the immediate threat of being invaded by the coconut leaf beetle, a destructive pest that has blighted the crop in several countries bordering India. The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) is working on a containment strategy ... [Published The Hindu - May 18 2013]

Entities: Threat, India, S. Ramanathan

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Haiti - Economy : Winners of Innovative Young Entrepreneurs contest

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MCI), under the patronage of the President and the Primature, has closed on the campus of the University of Limonade, the first Innovation Summit of Haiti, by the awards ceremony of Innovative Young Entrepreneurs contest, ... [Published Haitilibre.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, Haiti, MCI

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Obasanjo Exports Cassava Bread to Tanzania

Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has begun a mission to introduce African countries to Nigeria's innovation in bakery, Cassava Bread.Mr. Obasanjo, a goodwill ambassador for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, recently ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cassava, Tanzania, Bread

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

SABMiller Cassava Beer Aimed at Beating African Homebrew: Retail

Eugene Shepherd admits he’s no beer expert, but he’ll tell you the bottle of Eagle he treats himself to every week is a step up from the murky homebrews that had been his preferred tipple."Eagle is my first experience with beers," the 20-year-old student ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]

Entities: SABMiller PLC, Cassava, Barley, Mozambique

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Disease Threatens Nigeria's Cassava Output, Yield to Drop By 50 Percent

Cassava output from Nigeria, the world's largest producer of the crop, and producers from other parts of the globe, is set to suffer a major setback as the crop faces severe threats from a devastating viral disease.The International Institute of Tropical ... [Published Individual.com - May 14 2013]

Entities: Cassava, Whitefly, Nigeria, Virus

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He said last year, the country grew cassava crop on an area of 337,440 hectares, producing about 8 million tons of fresh cassava. "About 50 percent of fresh cassava, 40 percent of dry cassava and 10 percent of cassava powder were sold to Vietnam and Thailand, "he said."And Vietnam and Thailand re-sell those cassava products to international markets, particularly China." Agriculture official and project coordinator Ratana Norng said the cassava sector might generate between 200-300 million U S dollars worth of"informal"export...

Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support [Published People.com.cn - 4 hours ago]

...distortions in neighboring countries, lack of information on price and quality criteria of importing markets and lack of access to technology. "Though cassava has become the second largest agricultural crop in term of income, employment, hectares cultivated and exports, there is very little technical assistance support provided to the sector" she said

Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support [Published Zecco - 5 hours ago]

...It is already on our Red List and people are working on a strategy to control it," Dr. Krishnakumar said. "Like earthquakes, you do not know when or where it could come from. We only know it is likely to come." Dr. Krishnakumar said India was highly vulnerable to the threat posed by at least 10 to 12 species of dreaded invasive crop pests including the Cassava...

New threat from coconut pest [Published The Hindu - May 18 2013]

"There is no difference between this bread and the normal bread we are used to" he added

Obasanjo Exports Cassava Bread to Tanzania [Published AllAfrica.com - May 16 2013]

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Nigeria: Production of Cassava Chips, Pellets f... [Published AllAfrica.com - 2 hours ago]
Cambodia launches cassava development project u... [Published People.com.cn - 4 hours ago]
Fallacies of a transformation (III) [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 4 hours ago]
Cambodia launches cassava development project u... [Published Zecco - 5 hours ago]
Iloilo media undergoes entrepreneurial training [Published Sun Star Network - 22 hours ago]
Stallion Group To Invest In Rice Production In Edo [Published Ventures Africa - May 20 2013]
Japan To Invest $2 Billion In Africa’s Energy P... [Published Ventures Africa - May 20 2013]
Obasanjo shares 40% cassava bread with African ... [Published Vanguard - May 19 2013]
Vitamin-A Cassava Stems Distribution To Oyo Far... [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 19 2013]
Much ado about intervention funds [Published Nigeria Intel - May 19 2013]
Dine out Tuesday to help support Meals on Wheels [Published Longview Daily News - May 19 2013]
Another plague besets Africa [Published KansasCity.com - May 19 2013]
New threat from coconut pest [Published The Hindu - May 18 2013]
Haiti - Economy : Winners of Innovative Young E... [Published Haitilibre.com - May 17 2013]
ASA Upholds Complaint Against City Bingo Owners [Published Bingo Hideout - May 16 2013]
Obasanjo Exports Cassava Bread to Tanzania [Published AllAfrica.com - May 16 2013]
Starchy Roots in Mexico: New research report av... [Published US PRWire - May 16 2013]
SABMiller Cassava Beer Aimed at Beating African... [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]
Ayensu cassava farmers to manage starch factory [Published GhanaHomePage - May 15 2013]
Project aims to turn food waste into profit [Published GhanaHomePage - May 15 2013]
Genetic modification in crops a natural process... [Published New Vision - May 15 2013]
Disease Threatens Nigeria's Cassava Output, Yie... [Published Individual.com - May 14 2013]
Nigeria: Disease Threatens Nigeria's Cassava Ou... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 14 2013]
Cassava Brown Streak Disease spreading rapidly [Published New Agriculturist - May 14 2013]
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 20... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 14 2013]
Educating women may improve food security in Af... [Published Brightsurf Science News - May 14 2013]
Not so, Roger [Published Jamaica Observer - May 13 2013]
Cassava 'Under Siege' in EA [Published AllAfrica.com - May 13 2013]
Cassava ‘under siege’ in EA [Published Daily News TSN - May 13 2013]
Nigeria: Too many ideas [Published Vanguard - May 13 2013]

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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 20... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 14 2013] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom ...
Cassava was supposed to help us survive climate... [Published Grist - the Latest from Grist - May 09 2013] Climate change is fixing to make potatoes and wheat and rice plants less productive, but we were supposed to be able to count on cassava . If you’re not familiar, cassava is that tree-branch-looking thing that usually gets grouped near the hot peppers, ...
Drumbeat: May 8, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - May 08 2013] Shale Oil and Gas: The Contrarian View No one is questioning the fact that we have either reached or will soon reach “peak oil”; that existing fields are being depleted at the rapid rate of 7 percent a year, and that the search is on for “unconventional ...
Cassava database becomes open access [Published Cornell Science and Technology News - May 06 2013] The $25.2 million Next Generation Cassava Breeding project at Cornell has released a database that features all the breeding data on cassava for open access data sharing. ...
Cassavabase, an Open Access Database on Cassava... [Published CropBiotech Update - May 02 2013] Six months after the launch of the $25.2M NEXTGEN Cassava project at Cornell University, scientists on the project have released Cassavabase, a database that promotes open access data sharing. Cassavabase features all phenotypic and genotypic data generated ...