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Cassava thrives in semi-arid areas of Africa

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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CTA. 1993. Cassava thrives in semi-arid areas of Africa . Spore 45. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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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...

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