ABSTRACT
Cassava is a major root crop cultivated and utilized by around 102 countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, where it provides energy to more than 500 million people. It is cultivated in an area of around 19.058 million hectares in the world with a total production of 240.98 million tons (FAO 2010). ¢e significance of cassava as a food crop is getting shifted to an industrial crop for the manufacture of starch, sago, bioethanol, and so on in several countries such as ¢ailand, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, although it remains a major food crop in the African continent and a purely industrial (bioethanol) upcoming crop in China.
