So much more this CASSAVA can deliver to us as a Nation...

Youth and Cassava value chain

More than Agbado (Maize), CASSAVA is one significant tropical crop in which Nigeria as a country has lot of leverage opportunity on. Beyond being an ordinary food crop, I’m yet to see a single crop grown in Nigeria that has so much industrial applications and potential opportunities like Cassava. The fact that it is relatively…

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Health benefit of bitterleaf

Bitter Leaf has Latin name as Andrographis Paniculate Ness and a botanical name as Vernonia amygdalina. This plant is thought to have come from tropical Asia. The plant grows wild in open places such as roadsides, in fields, on vacant land rather damp soil or planted in the garden as a medicinal plant. This plant…

POTATOES AS A VEGETABLE

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) ranks the sweet potato as the No. 1 most nutritional vegetable and rated it significantly higher in nutrients than the Idaho potato, spinach, or broccoli. The sweet potato or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous…

Food Security

  Given meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The availability of food irrespective of class, gender or region is another one. Food security is defined as the availability at…