Cassava has the potential to be a huge money spinner
Posted on: Mon, 03 Dec 2007
Ndoma Agbor, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Development (CSAD) said cassava as a commodity has huge investment potentials in the South South, South West, South East and North Central zones of Nigeria.as a famine reserve crop
as rural staple food
as a cash crop for urban consumption
as a industrial raw material
as a foreign exchange earner
the Presidential Initiative on Cassava
the Cassava Mosaic Disease Prevention Programme
the Cassava Enterprises Development Programme
the Cassava Multiplication Programme
the Root and Tuber Expansion Programme
Posted on: Mon, 03 Dec 2007
Ndoma Agbor, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Development (CSAD) said cassava as a commodity has huge investment potentials in the South South, South West, South East and North Central zones of Nigeria.
Agbor added that Nigeria should take advantage of rising oil prices to develop its agriculture sector, especially cassava production.
The Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa (COSCA) found that 70% of Nigeria's rural population eat a minimum of one cassava meal a day.
According to the study, cassava performs five duties as an income product. These duties are:
Nigeria is currently the world's largest cassava producer and the crop is starting to have an increasing presence in world trade.
Some of the various programmes aimed at stimulating cassava production are:
