First yield results of Nutrients Omission Trials (NOT) reveal significant responses to fertilizer. First data on the 34 NOT trails have been analyzed and it is now available. The average root yield increase with NPK recorded from the first yield
Second season of ACAI field trial set up in Tanzania register remarkable success
For the first half of 2017, African Cassava Agronomy Initiative, ACAI, recorded remarkable field trials set up in the Southern Zone and Zanzibar project sites in Tanzania. Between January and May 2017, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA, staff
Seeking To Understand Cassava Response to Fertilizer in Different Agro-Ecological Zones; Joy Adiele, PhD candidate
Joy Adiele is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She is one of the pioneer students receiving operational support from ACAI project to facilitate her field research activities. Joy’s PhD research is focused on understanding the potential
Soil sampling laboratory and equipment training for IITA-ACAI partners
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative, ACAI, conducted a training workshop on Laboratory and Equipment Use in Soil and Plant Sampling, Handling, Storage and Analysis for 16 participants selected from the project’s research partners and the national agricultural research systems (NARS)
ACAI In A Week: Field Monitoring
ACAI project activities in the field went characteristically a notch higher in respect to the expected seasonal weather changes. Nigeria is transitioning into its Harmattan season while Tanzania, the October rains are expected to create excitement around planting and set
Project Synergy Through Harmonized Activities
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative, ACAI, project implementation in close collaboration with partners gives importance to the uniformity of project activities to harmonize the processes and the progress of the project, within the ACAI team and partners. Through regular trainings,
ACAI Training of Trainers for Effective Herbicides Use in Cassava Farms
The Effective and Safe Use of Herbicides in Cassava Fields training included practical demonstrations and hands on approach IITA’s African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) conducted a training for more than 36 participants on the ‘Effective and Safe Use of Herbicides
“Africa’s pathway out of poverty” – by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, World Food Prize Laureate Luncheon, October 20, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa
Today, I will be speaking about Africa’s pathway out of poverty. For millions of rural poor, their aspiration is that they will make it out of poverty, especially through their kids, and thereby laying the foundations of a
ACAI sets pace for the 2018 project activities in Tanzania
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative team met on the 21st and 22nd of June in Zanzibar to review the second season results and plan for the project’s third season activities that will be undertaken during the 2017-2018 season in