Cauca, Colombia , affected by frog skin diseases and whiteflies pest , Colombia , affected by frog skin diseases and whiteflies pest

The Tropical Whitefly IPM Project, with the financing of the New Zealand Agency for International Development identified resistance to the whitefly (A. Socialis) in cassava clones from Ecuador and Peru. This resistance was used to bread a high-yield cassava cultivar possessing high levels of resistance to whitefly damage: The cultivar "Natiama- 31".