Cassava has many food uses but the plant is not safe to eat unless it is specially prepared.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Farmers in the Philippines are showing new interest in crops like winged beans,string beans, arrowroot and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

The agriculture minister said Bong County grows most of the country's cassava, eddoes, plantains, bananas and potatoes.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

So far,brown streak has not jumped to Nigeria, the world's largest producer of cassava.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

But farmers sometimes do not find the disease until they cut open a cassava.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Cassava brown streak disease is a more destructive form of cassava mosaic.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

About eight hundred million people in Africa,Asia and South America eat cassava.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Loss of cassava crops could lead to hunger.

VOA: special.2010.06.08