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Save and grow: Cassava. Policy Brief

A guide to sustainable production intensification










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    Save and grow: Cassava
    A guide to sustainable production intensification
    2013
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    This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO's Save and Grow model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding genotypes, and greater use of agrochemicals. Intensication carries great risks, including soil nutrient depletion and upsurges in pests and diseases.The guide shows how ecosystem-based Save and Grow approaches and practices can help tropical developing countries to avoid the risks of unsustainable intensication, while realizing cassava's potential for producing higher yields, alleviating hunger and rural poverty, and contributing to national economic development.
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    Use of cassava and sweet potatoes in animal feeding
    Better Farming Series, no. 46 (1995)
    1995
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    This illustrated booklet teaches the farmer how to use cassava as animal feed for pigs, chickens, rabbits and ruminants. The roots, peels, and leaves all have value as animal food. Sweet potatoes and the sweet potato vine, are also animal food.
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    Processing of cassava and sweet potatoes for animal feeding
    Better Farming Series, no. 44 (1995)
    1995
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    This illustrated booklet on the cassava plant covers all the main points of crop yield, feed value of cassava roots, the problem of cyanide in cassava, harvesting and spoilage of cassava, processing of cassava into dried chips, and the preservation of the roots as silage. It also presents some information on the sweet potato and the crop yields to be expected as well as some materials on curing and storage of tubers in genera.

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