Initially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le d�veloppement �conomique et social, Abidjan, C�te d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be purchased as a set (45 booklets) or singly.

Initially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le d�veloppement �conomique et social, Abidjan, C�te d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be purchased as a set (45 booklets) or singly.

Overview of needs justification for use of roots, tubers, plantains and bananas in animal feeding; Roots tubers and plantains: resent trends in production trade and use; Recent developments in cassava agronomy;Processing of cassava tuber mesla and chips; Quality aspects of tradesble cassava products including problems of adulteration; Detoxification of cassava products and affects of residual toxins on consuming animals; Ensilage of cassava products and their ise as animal feed; Preparation of cassava leaf products and their use as animal feeds; Improving the nutritional value of cassava products ising microbial techniques; Use of cassava products in poultry feeding; Use of cassava products in pig feeding; Economics of cassava products use in animal feeding; Sweet potatoes as animal feed in developing countries: present patterns and future prospects; Cultivation, harvesting and storage of sweet potato products; Feeding of potato to monogastrics; Feeding systems for tropical rabbit production emphasizing roots, tubers and bananas; Availability of banana and plantain productts for anomal feeding; Econimic aspests of banana and plantain use in animal feeding: the Cameroon experience.

, and R.N. Kirkwood, Professional Research Associate,.

Cassava is the most importan root and tuber crop grown in the tropical developing regions of the world. While the greater part of cassava production is destined for human food uses, the potential for the use of cassava and cassava products in animal feeding has increased considerably over the pest 20 years. The interest in the use of cassava as a carbohydrate source to replace, partially or totally, feed grains in rations for swine, poultry, ruminants, and other amimals has generated a vast amount of information on the subject. With the objective of systematizing this information and of making it more widely available to researchers, producers, and agroindustrialists, CIAT produced the bibliography "Cassava utilization in animal feed" in 1985 which contained 578 references.