Literature review and research recommendations on Cassava `Manihot Esculenta Crantz"
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In the fall of 1969, a team of scientists from the University of Georgia was commissioned by the Technical Assistance Bureau of the Agency for International Development to (1) compile on a systematic basis the available information about cassava and related research now in progress; (2) synthesize, appraise, and analyze the information gathered and to determine as near as possible the broad limitations and potential of cassava as a food and feed crop; and (3) to prepare a list of research needs in their order of importance, for the orientation of future research on cassava.
Hendershott, C. H. · 1970

Abstract
This team, consisting of ten men, represented the areas of Agronomy, Animal Nutrition, Botany, Economics, Food Science, Genetics, Horticulture, Human Nutrition and Plant Pathology. Each of their reports appear as a separate chapter in this manuscript and in each case represents their own view on cassava in their particular area of speciality.
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