“After years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports good news for cassava in the Great Lakes region of Africa: New disease-free varieties are helping increase crop yields. “The improved crop now benefits a total of some 1.65 million people,” says FAO.
ma/cb
This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions