Cameroon: New Cassava Species Could Boost Food Security

Yaounde — Scientists and farmers' associations have high hopes that a variety of cassava could help build their resilience to droughts and food insecurity.

Cameroon's National Development Programme for Roots and Tubers (PNDRT) has distributed seedlings of a new high-yield, pest-resistant variety of cassava to 1,000 smallholder farmers - most of them women - all over the country with a view to buying back cuttings from them to multiply distribution in coming years.

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