date:Jul 09, 2014
mitted to our partnership to develop and disseminate nutritious cassava varieties to reach more and more Nigerians in the coming years.
Nearly one in three Nigerian children under five and one-quarter of all pregnant women in the country are vitamin- A deficient. The newly released vitamin-A cassava varieties can provide up to 40 per cent of the vitamin A recommended daily allowance for children under five.
They are 25 per cent richer in beta-carotene than the first set of vitamin-A cassava