DHARMAPURI: Tapioca farmers have urged the state government to take steps to distribute sago at ration shops. This would ...

Cultivation of tapioca, one of the major horticultural crops which ensure sustained livelihood to a large number of tribal farmers, has been brisk on the Pachamalai, about 90 km from here. Every year, ...

Even as the Forest Department and NABARD are trying to promote alternative cropping in Pachamalai, tapioca cultivation is on full swing in the hills and tribal farmers, encouraged by the copious rain ...

Perambalur district is seeing a major shift in cropping patterns as prolonged water scarcity has forced farmers to try alternative crops. PERAMABALUR: Perambalur district is seeing a major shift in ...

The price of tapioca products, sago (sabudana) and starch, increased by 15-20% in the past one month due to poor arrivals as farmers could not harvest tapioca roots. Harvesting suffered because of ...

COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has predicted that prices of Tapioca will be stable during October to November, and advised farmers to take up sowing. "At present, Tapioca price is ...

The lush green cassava leaves that grow in abundance within the Mahatma Gandhi University campus tell the tale of a farming initiative that may change the game for tapioca cultivation across the ...

The humble tapioca or cassava, which once used to be a part of staple diet in Kerala, is now much in demand not just among the local people but tourists - Indian and foreign - who relish the root ...

Troubled times are awaiting tapioca farmers in the State with the Agricultural Market Intelligence Centre (AMIC) of the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) predicting that the price of tapioca could ...

Cassava cultivation in Kerala has been hit due to price volatility and import of cassava starch from Vietnam and Thailand. According to latest estimates, the area under the crop has dropped by 35 per ...

The humble tapioca leaf has a new status. The leaf has been identified as a biopesticide that could protect fruits, including papaya, banana and mango orchards, from pest-wastage. Loss of orchard ...