The paper assesses the potential impact of the adoption of improved cassava varieties on yields of smallholder farmers …, adoption had a significant positive impact on cassava yields. Adopters had 18 t/ha increases in yields and non-adopters should … awareness about the existing improved cassava varieties for increased adoption are recommended. …

affect cassava productivity in the study area. Using a two-stage sampling technique, a primary data was employed to select … one hundred cassava farmers. The result was analyzed with a multivariate probit and generalized linear regression models …. The result showed that cassava farming was dominated by male sex (82%), with average age of 45.84±9.42 years where there …

This paper examines the drivers of Africa’s rapidly increasing cassava output using panel data for 37 African countries … harvested on annual cassava production. Since the 1960s, Africa’s average cassava yields per hectare have been below the world …’s average and those of frontline cassava-producing continents like Asia and the Americas. Nevertheless, Africa’s total cassava …

cassava production can assist in the eradication of poverty among crop farmers. A total of 70 respondents were sampled and … the knowledge of cassava production is rife among the farmers. Majority of them (71.43%) had farming experience of between … shows an R2 value of 0.69. The study therefore recommends that efforts be employed to improve the production of cassava and …

Cassava peeling machines are available but are inaccessible and prohibitively expensive, especially for small …-scale processors to acquire. This paper examines the perception and willingness of smallholder cassava processors to pay for cassava … peeling machine services using data from 300 cassava processors in the Bono East Region of Ghana. A perception index from a 5 …