Cassava breeding and varietal dissemination in Vietnam initiated in 1975 after Vietnam was unified. The cassava program in Vietnam began to cooperate closely with CIAT and became part of the Asian Cassava Research Network in 1988. Thanks to the introduction of new highyielding varieties from Thai...
Hoang, Kim
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Pham, Van Bien
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Tran, Ngoc Quyen
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Tran Ngoc Ngoan
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Trinh, Phuong
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Kawano, Kazuo
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[Cassava breeding and varietal dissemination in Vietnam from 1975 to 2000]
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Cassava breeding and varietal dissemination in Vietnam from 1975 to 2000
In recent years (1990-1995) the cassava area in Vietnam has remained stable, or has increased slightly in the south due to the new demand for cassava roots used for starch processing. Therefore, our cassava breeding program, in collaboration with CIAT, has put a high priority on developing new va...
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...