With wheat prices being at an all time high, cassava, if given a keen attention could offer a solution. It is worth noting that President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has urged his people to turn to a ...

By Popoola Jamiu, Abeokuta The Ogun State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to sustaining and expanding the achievements of the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), with plans to extend ...

Nigeria, the world’s largest producer of cassava, is taking bold steps to add value to its vast cassava output by producing pharmaceutical-grade starch, it emerged on Wednesday. The Director ...

In a move aimed at reducing post-harvest losses and strengthening food security, Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese Plant, has commissioned and handed over a multi-million-naira cassava processing facility to ...

Oyo State is to partner with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR,a publicly-funded agrifood research network, which has the International Institute for Tropical ...

Nigeria needs 28.3 million metric tonnes of fresh cassava roots planted annually. It needs about 1.2 million hectares of land to meet the country’s demand for some of the cassava by-products and ...

For decades, Nigeria has worn the crown as the world’s largest producer of cassava. Across villages and farmlands stretching from the South-West to the Niger Delta and the Middle Belt, cassava has ...