Cassava is cultivated in 40 African countries, stretching through a wide belt from Madagascar in the Southeast to Senegal and Cape Verde in the Northwest of the continent. Around 70 percent of Africa’s cassava is harvested in Nigeria, the…
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IITA’s efforts to promote the processing of cassava in Tanzania have received a major boost with the completion and handing over of newly constructed facilities for a training center on cassava processing on 27 January. Facilities included an equipment…
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) office in IITA-Ibadan has established a demonstration unit that is converting waste to wealth by processing cassava peels into high-quality feeds for ruminants, poultry and pigs. On 22 May IITA Director General Nteranya…
This video documents the activities of phases one and two of a project whose objective was to promote small-scale processing of cassava as a way of contributing to food security, increasing the income and improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers,…