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THE REAL VALUE OF CASSAVA






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 feed

grains.

For ethanol it's ethanol from other sources, and for starch it's

corn/maize starch.

Based on the enterprise analysis, the value of raw materials (fresh

cassava) in Nigeria for the varied cassava products are indicated

below:


•Flour

: 65.0%

Starch : 63. 0%

•

Pellets : 58.0%

•

Ethanol : 59.0%

Together we will make cassava the new goldmine.

Let's build cassava Industrial Revolutionization

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