Cassava starch content and its relationship with rainfall

According to the statistics in the AGRONET database (2013 ), more than 50% of the national area and production of cassava occurs in the departments in the North Coast of Colombia. The departments included in this study, Cordoba and Sucre (Figure 1), have the second and fourth highest sown area of this crop, respectively, at the national level. Figure 1 Location of the study region: Cordoba and Sucre departments.