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Field production costs (cost of planting materials and field operations’ labor per unit weight of output) : declines as yield increases because most of such costs are constant per unit area, irrespective of the yield
Constraints being faced today by cassava production in WCA Non-commercial production systems in small and fragmented farm holdings (0.2 – 2 ha., Ave: 0.5 ha): crop of last resort High production and processing costs and poor product qualities Emerging pest threat (cassava mosaic disease variants, Cassava brown streak disease, African root and tuber scale) Absence of strong producers and processors’ organizations
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