The people of Togo eat a lot of bread. But to make bread you need wheat. And Togo doesn’t grow much wheat. It has to import it and Russia is one of the major suppliers. So the folks at the Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique (ITRA) and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture taught the folks in the village of Atti-Apedokoe how to use flour made out of cassava. Farmers in Togo grow a lot of cassava so its a crop they know. ITRA suggested they try some improved varieties of…

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