In DR Congo, Farmers Prefer Locally Bred Disease-resistant Cassava Clones
In DR Congo, Farmers Prefer Locally Bred Disease-resistant Cassava Clones In DR Congo, Farmers Prefer Locally Bred Disease-resistant Cassava Clones In the Democratic Republic of Congo, farmers are prefering locally bred Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD)-resistant cassava clones. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is funding the CBSD project. The farmers’ verdict came at a recent Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) to evaluate the CBSD-tolerant cassava clones currently on trial. The PVS took place in the Ruzizi Plain. International Institute of Tropic...
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