ng to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
The statement read in part, “The training is being done in close collaboration with the state Agricultural Development Programmes and other extension service providers.“To ensure a seamless and successful dissemination of the Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management and Best Planting Practices tool, the team has developed videos and translated same into local languages – Igbo, Yoruba and Tiv, targeting the respective zones.
It noted that the tool had since integrated the best planting practices of ACAI, adding that farmers who used the toolkit had more than doubled their cassava yield from the national average of nine tonnes per hectare to more than 20 tonnes per ha.
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