Commercial-scale adoption of improved cassava varieties: A baseline study to highlight constraints of large-scale cassava based agro-processing industries in Southern Nigeria

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 689-694

  Tarawali, Gbassey ^a   Iyangbe, Charles ^a   Udensi, Udensi Ekea ^a,b   Ilona, Paul ^a   Osun, Taiwo ^a   Okater, Chyka ^a   Asumugha, Godwin Ndubuisi ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

^c National Root Crops Research Institute   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adoption; Agro processors; Improved cassava varieties; Probit model

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; CROP MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; HARVEST; HOUSEHOLD; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POSTHARVEST PERIOD; PROBABILITY; RURAL AREA; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES CULTIVATION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84869098740     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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