May 18

Excursion to National Root Crop Research Institute, Umudike

The National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, Abia State is an agricultural research institute in Nigeria. The institute conducts research into genetic improvement of economically important root and tuber crops such as cassava, yam, cocoyam, sweet potato, Irish potato, ginger, rizga, Hausa potato, sugar beets and Turmeric. It also researches subjects such as crop cultivation techniques, storage, processing and […]