Agro Farm Blog

 Nigeria, as one of the best food producing country, needs some electronic innovation  in the field of agriculture. Monitoring and control of farming  environment play a crucial role in farming production and  management. Farm lands and plantations in Nigeria and  west African countries are usually very large scale running thousands of acres and in most cases fencing these large  expanses of land are prohibitively expensive and really overwhelming.  Farmers therefore act by putting together fences using  sticks and ropes and these provide the individual security measure  they can adopt. These security measures are feather-brained and really ineffective as intruders can easily jump them and move  away with the yielding amount of crops as they will carry them without the  knowledge of the owners, especially when such fences are erected around dark crevices. Also, with this situations in  West Africa where farmers face security th...

Primary Products from Cassava  Four primary industrial products from cassava stand out as important for Nigeria. These are (a) cassava flour, (b) crude ethanol, (c) native starch, and (d) animal feed/cassava chips and pellets and are discussed below. These products are commonly traded and show the highest potential for growth in demand, and are related to medium and enormous scale processing. The Enterprise Analysis for the development of processing plants for every of those sub-sectors is presented in Annex I. In the domestic market, industrial cassava products compete with traditional cassava products, mainly gari. Furthermore, each of the main industrial products (cassava flour, chips for animal feed, chips for food grade ethanol, and cassava starch) faces competition from (a) identical imported products, and (b) substitute products that are either being imported or locally grown. For domestic cassava flour the most competitive product is flour . For cassava chips/pellets it's f...