Through hisKauai Taro Co., Asquith is developing new products to make use of taro. The future of the crop, he says, reaches far beyond poi. Alternate uses of taro have been around for a long time ...

Kalo farmer Bobby Pahia of Hoaloha Farms stands in a field of his dryland taro Friday morning in Waikapu. He is in charge roughly 300 acres of farmland owned by developer Mike Atherton and ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...

She planted her nduma suckers normally just like any other crop. Omondi, the expert explains that taro can be grown in free-draining and well-prepared soil. "It needs to be watered well and kept ...

Among these opportunity crops are yams, sweet potato and taro, with some wild varieties offering significantly higher levels ...

Thanks, Maria. Taro - what a fascinating vegetable and one that, as you say is plentiful, but so few New Zealand homes cook with it. Many NZ’ers think of it as a Pacific crop, and yet so many ...