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 ...

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 ...

From depending on others for food to cultivating a sustainable and marketable crop, marginalised tribes in Kerala are reclaiming their livelihoods one tuber at a time.

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 ...