The creation of a National Mission on Tuber Crops (NMTC) has been proposed for mainstreaming tubers into India’s food basket and increasing productivity and farmer incomes from these often sidelined ...

RUPERT, Idaho — The primary thing that drives decisions on Luke and Sara Adams’ farm is sugar beets. The couple owns shares in the grower-owned Amalgamated Sugar Co., which allows them to grow a ...

Root and tuber crops currently provide over 40 per cent of Africa’s food supply, according to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Over the past two decades, production ...

The most abundant soluble tuber protein from the Andean crop oca (Oxalis tuberosa Mol.), named ocatin, has been purified and characterized. Ocatin accounts for 40% to 60% of the total soluble oca ...

Root, tuber and banana (RT&B) crops are widely cultivated across the landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These staple food crops play a fundamental role in smallholder farming systems due to their ...