Despite producing one-fifth of global cassava output and being the largest producer, Nigeria accounts for only two percent ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a perennial woody shrub that has an edible root that was first cultivated in South America and introduced to Nigeria in the sixteenth century. Cassava is considered ...

Already, Nigeria, according to Malam Adamu Bello, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, is the largest cassava-producing country in the world, with an annual production of over 35 ...

In December, a ton of cassava was sold for N120,000 and above, depending on location. However, the current price crash point is at N80, 000 to N90, 000 per ton, with one processor suggesting 'it ...

Nigeria is the world's top cassava producer, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with Brazil and Thailand behind it.

Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) says cassava has the capacity to generate N10 trillion and save Nigeria over N1.2 trillion from import of derivatives such as ethanol, starch and sweetener.

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The Chief Research Officer, Cassava Research Programme at the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, says Nigeria's productivity is too low.

Even a fool, in Nigeria,now knows that the last thing anyone should believe is anything announced by the Federal Government of Nigeria, its Ministers, agencies and especially the President’s ...

Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol.