Cassava has been changing its role from a traditional fresh human food to an efficient crop for animal feed and starch production. Nearly all cassava is grown by small farmers. Harvested roots are sold to animal feed or starch factories, or are used for on-farm feeding of pigs to be sold at the m...
Kawano, Kazuo
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[The role of improved cassava cultivars in generating income for better farm management]
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The role of improved cassava cultivars in generating income for better farm management
Watananonta, Watana
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Tiraporn, C.
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Sindhuprama, Sophon
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Kawano, Kazuo
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[Early harvesting of cassava grown under rainfed conditions]
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Early harvesting of cassava grown under rainfed conditions
In Thailand cassava breeding is the responsibility of the Rayong Field Crops Research Center of the Department of Agriculture (DOA), and of Kasetsart University (KU). From 1975 to 1992, six cultivars have been released for industrial use, i.e. Rayong 1, Rayong 3, Rayong 60, Rayong 90, Sri Racha 1...
Cassava is after maize an important subsidiary crop in Vietnam. The amount of production used for human consumption is now only about 10-20 percent, that for animal feed increased to about 30 percent, for industrial processing about 30-40 percent, while about 20 percent is used for other requirem...