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 ...

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 ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, Abia State, a Certificate of ...

In many tropical countries, yams are known as the “king of crops.” Worldwide, they’re the fourth most utilized root and tuber crop—after potatoes, cassavas, and sweet potatoes—and they feed hundreds ...

The all-American root veggie is actually a tuber, hails from South America and is one of the world's most popular crops. China currently is the world's leading potato producer (about one-third of the ...

Amla is among the richest natural sources of vitamin C which is a critical nutrient for immune defence, making it a must in ...

I was on the hunt for the winter pebbles, an assortment of turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips and winter radishes that some enterprising farmers at my local market sell as a mix. They look ...

When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of Pacific spices five hundred years ago, it was a famous miscalculation. Columbus instead made landfall in the Caribbean among the Taíno, a ...

Opportunity crops in Africa show varied climate resilience, with several projected to outperform current staple crops under future climate scenarios. Root and tuber crops are notably resilient whereas ...