However, current output has slumped to about 10.5 million metric tons, sparking concerns over severe shortages and escalating ...

The Federal Government and Flour Mills of Nigeria have joined forces to accelerate cassava industrialisation and unlock the full potential of Nigeria’s cassava value chain.The move is part of efforts ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Adebayo says over 90 percent of Nigeria’s cassava output is processed and eaten locally. “The consumed part of cassava is the root, which is a starchy root; it looks like potato,” he explains.

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

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.

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 ...