The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), an agency under the Department of Agriculture (DA), is also taking up the cudgels to demonstrate the potential of cassava as a cash crop.

Cassava used to be treated as an “orphan crop” or is planted in plots where traditional crops, like rice and corn, fail to grow.

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