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Five new cassava varieties developed with support from NextGen Cassava have been approved for release in Nigeria. This was contained in a recent report by NextGen Cassava Breeding Project, an international partnership led by Cornell University. According to the report published Thursday, these next generation varieties deliver promising options for smallholder farmers in resisting cassava diseases and marketing their crops to consumers. It said the new varieties were named Game-Changer, Hope, Obasanjo-2, Baba-70 and Poundable. “The five next generation varieties feature high yields and robust disease resistance important for farmers and characteristics sought by consumers,” the report said. It noted that “Poundable” is the first fresh market variety released in Nigeria, while ‘Hope’ and ‘Baba-70’ have excellent gari and fufu quality to address the processed food market.

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