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Cassava (Manioc)

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The origin of cassava is somewhere in tropical Brazil. The crop was dispersed to other parts of Latin America thousands of years ago; remains dated at about 800 BC were found near the Colombia-Venezuela border. It was transported to other parts of the world in post-Columbian times. In Africa and tropical Asia it has become established as an important crop supplying carbohydrates.

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  1. Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis, California, USA

    Mas Yamaguchi

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Yamaguchi, M. (1983). Cassava (Manioc). In: World Vegetables. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7907-2_11

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