The creation of a National Mission on Tuber Crops (NMTC) has been proposed for mainstreaming tubers into India’s food basket and increasing productivity and farmer incomes from these often sidelined ...

Vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) and horticultural tree crops (HTCs) play an important role in food security and income and represent significant agricultural opportunities in most countries of ...

Root, tuber and banana (RT&B) crops are widely cultivated across the landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These staple food crops play a fundamental role in smallholder farming systems due to their ...

Root and tuber crops currently provide over 40 per cent of Africa’s food supply, according to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Over the past two decades, production ...

To ensure food and nutrition security and resilience to the effects of climate change, a one-day intensive training on sustainable in-situ and on-farm conservation of neglected and underutilized root ...

The Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) here, has kicked off a programme at Marayoor, Idukki district, with the aim of transforming the tribal food basket through a tuber crop-based ...

West African Virus Epidemiology (WAVE), the body in charge of addressing diseases of root/tuber crops, on Monday raised alarm over two emerging cassava diseases in Nigeria. Dr Justin Pita, Executive ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kudumbashree and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CTCRI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide 12 advanced ...