Table 1.

Summary of relevant events related to cassava production and cassava mosaic disease in Zambia between 1993 and 2014

Event	Year	Province	Reference
Release of the first high-yield local cultivars	1993	Countrywide	Haggblade and Nyembe 2008
First report of ACMV and cassava Q virus	1995	Luapula, Northern, North-Western, Central, Copperbelt, Lusaka*	Mkuyamba 1995
First countrywide survey of CMD; incidence reported to be 40.8%	1995 and 1996	North-Western, Luapula, Northern, Central, Western, Copperbelt	Muimba–Kankolongo et al. 1997
Release of the first CMD-resistant cultivars	2000	Countrywide	Haggblade and Nyembe 2008
CMD incidence reported to be 46%	2006	Northern, Luapula	J.P Legg and P.C Chikoti 2006
Comprehensive countrywide CMD survey; disease incidence reported to be 52%	2009	Eastern, Western, Lusaka, Central, Northern, Luapula, North-Western	Chikoti et al. 2013a
First report of EACMMV in Zambia	2014	Western, Northern, Luapula, Lusaka, Eastern	Mulenga et al. 2016

ACMV African cassava mosaic virus, CMD cassava mosaic disease, SACMV South African cassava mosaic virus, EACMMV East African cassava mosaic Malawi virus. *Tested for cassava Q virus and ACMV