Assertion: cassava | /r/HasProperty | tolerant
Facets:
value: to drought
type: CAUSE
value: highly
type: DEGREE
value: to other arable crops
type: OTHER
value: to acid soils
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Cassava is highly tolerant to acid soils, and has formed a symbiotic association with soil fungi that help its roots take up phosphorus and micronutrients.
text: Cassava is cultivated by smallholder farmers as a reliable source of food and income crop in unstable environments: it is vegetatively propagated and tolerates marginal soils and limited rainfall and has a flexible harvesting schedule (Ceballos et al., 2004 ; El‐Sharkawy, 1993 ; FAO & IFAD, 2000 ; Kizito, Chiwona‐Karltun, Egwang, Fregene, & Wasterbergh, 2007 ; Nweke et al., 2002 ).
text: Late planting of the cassava crop is also a problem, even though cassava is drought tolerant relative to other arable crops.
text: It is tolerant to drought and can generate acceptable yields even on marginal lands.
text: It is drought tolerant and produces reasonable yields under adverse conditions.