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 ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Council for Agricultural Research-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CTCRI) and Indian Society for Root Crops will be jointly organising a two-day national ...

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 ...

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 African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in collaboration with the government of Kenya, will host the 19th edition of the International Triennial Symposium of the International Society ...

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 ...

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Root crops have long been popular with gardeners. While our ancestors dug wild roots to supplement their diets, modern humans have spent decades breeding and selecting root crops to develop the ...

Visakhapatnam: Showcasing agricultural heritage and biodiversity, the tribal community is coming together to celebrate a festival-focused on the diverse array of indigenous tubers and roots in the ...