The starch is made from cassava plant.
It comes from the cassava plant, which is steeped in cyanide.
Lukas Safarimoja stumbled on a strange cassava plant while hunting in the bush 36 years ago.
But in these hard times, other farmers said, people have been stealing harvested rice from sheds and pulling cassava plants right out of the ground.
The cassava plant was one such introduction; it is called manioke in Tongan.
Similar efforts have been directed toward the reduction of the cyanogenic natural product linamarin in cassava plants.
The cassava plant has either red or green branches with blue spindles on them.
Bare-chested and shoeless, the man fell to his knees among rows of sprouting cassava plants.
They dashed through at night, searched fields filled with mines for cassava plants and ran back through sniper fire.
Cassava flour is made from the root of the cassava plant.