Nigeria: Researchers Empower the Poor Through Cassava Productivity

19 February 2013

Researchers and key partners working under the Support for Agricultural Research and Development for Strategic Crops (SARD-SC) have kicked off activities to improve the productivity of cassava by at least 20 per cent in project sites, increase household incomes and food security, and make the root crop work for the poor.

Four countries namely DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia, are the main beneficiaries of the cassava component but the project allows neighbouring countries to tap from technologies that would be generated.

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