Converse of object

• grow: This has encouraged more farmers to grow cassava, improving many lives.

• plant: Even drought tolerant crops such as sorghum and millet, and recently planted cassava, are showing signs of stress.

• dry: The village women used the roads to dry cassava instead, saying they needed food rather than roads.

• eat: Both Tomas and his mother became paralyzed after eating poisonous cassava.

• include: Intercropping is commonly practiced and a popular combination includes cassava, sweet potatoes, and beans.

• infect: First report of a distinct begomovirus infecting cassava from Zanzibar.

Adjective modifier

• e.g.: These crops ( e.g. cassava, sweet potatoes ) need less inputs and less labor and are high in nutritional value.

Modifies a noun

• mosaic: Recently cassava mosaic virus wiped out the entire cassava crop in Zambia.

• flour: There is already some industry in Namaacha, including the bottling of mineral water, and the production of sunflower oil and cassava flour.

• virus: Recently cassava mosaic virus wiped out the entire cassava crop in Zambia.

• crop: Two years ago, Africa lost more than half its cassava crop - a key source of calories - to the mosaic virus.

• root: In the last session, the emphasis was on the molecular study of post-harvest deterioration of cassava storage root.

• disease: Emergence, spread and strategies for controlling the pandemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in east and central Africa.