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Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by alcmene: 3:34pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Akinwunmi Adesina, former minister of agriculture, says the Goodluck Jonathan administration was mocked for introducing cassava flour and bread, which he claims all Nigerians now eat. Speaking at the African Economic Conference in Abuja on Monday, Adesina said Africa must work on feeding itself and the world via import substitution. “When I was minister in Nigeria, we moved aggressively on import substitution with use of cassava flour for use as composite flours in bread making and confectionery industries,” he said. “People laughed us to scorn: Nigerians, they said, would never eat bread made from cassava flour. Well, unknown to Nigerians, flour millers, small, medium and large, have now all shifted to partial substitution of wheat flour with cassava composite flours. “Don’t look for ‘cassava bread’, all your bread is now cassava composite flour-based. The industry has shifted. The story is not just in Nigeria. As we speak, several countries have taken the homegrown policy in Nigeria to help reduce their wheat imports, including Liberia, Togo and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).” He said a “young graduate, Noel, from Bukavu in Democratic Republic of Congo, together with his colleagues, have moved into agribusiness. In just a little over one year, they manufacture cassava flour, well-packaged and standardised for bakers”. “Today, Noel and his team 4 generate income of $4,000 per week, or $16,000 a month, or $196,000 per year. That means they are making over N78 million annually if converted into naira at the official interbank market rate. They are already multi-millionaires. “He that has ears let him hear: The key to Africa’s prosperity is value addition in agriculture, in turning our products to money, in looking inwards. Africa must feed itself.” Adesina said to take new agricultural technologies to scale, AfDB will soon be launching a new $800 million initiative – Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) – with the goal of reaching 40 million farmers over ten years. He said the bank would invest $24 billion in agriculture and agribusiness over the next ten years. https://www.thecable.ng/akinwunmi-adesina-we-were-mocked-for-it-but-everyone-now-eats-cassava-bread?utm_source=nnd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nnd 12 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by thesicilian: 3:42pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Who is 'everyone'? Never even heard of cassava bread. 39 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by utytill(m): 3:44pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Nigeria success stories are of and from GEJ. 142 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by ojun50(m): 3:50pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
He actually mean our ladies love big cassava 20 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by OAUTemitayo: 3:54pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Where is the bread?
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Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Ikology(m): 4:00pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
alcmene: The bolded remains the crux of the matter. Don't look for made in cassava bread because you won't find it. 37 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 4:04pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
No wonder breads are no longer tasting good the way Agege bread used to taste those days. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by krasican(m): 4:10pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
utytill: 10 Likes
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Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 4:18pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Cassava bread for pizza abi Cassava bread for sandwich abi Cassava bread for burger abi Useless government 1 Like |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by TippyTop(m): 4:45pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Akinwunmi Adesina, former minister of agriculture, says the Goodluck Jonathan administration was mocked for introducing cassava flour and bread, which he claims all Nigerians now eat. You dey mind dem, Mtscheeew! Zombies eat cassava bread day and night, I hope zombies choke while eating their cassava bread. 32 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by jahsharon: 4:51pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
utytill: Yes, you are very right, GEJ successfully looted and shared our resources among his gang of looters. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by otukpo(f): 4:51pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Hunger dey wire them they can even eat sand bread. 21 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by 9jatriot(m): 4:52pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
They want to continue this lie again. Cassava bread came from Obasanjo during his cassava initiative program. If this statement on f cassava flour is true then credit will have to go to Obasanjo first before anyone else. 28 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by utytill(m): 4:56pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
jahsharon:See painment,abeg shift.na me talkam? 31 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Splashme: 4:57pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
thesicilian: See,Olodo, all the flour millers in the country today mix a certain percentage of Cassava flour to their wheat flour before selling to the bakers. Any bread you eat in Nigeria today contains part cassava and part wheat flour. xxxxxx . . . Thanks to GEJ 73 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by juman(m): 4:59pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
I think the idea of cassava bread was brought by obasanjo, but I dont remember if actually the bakers were using cassava also to make bread during his time. Obasanjo was too unserious to achieve anything significant in his time just like buhari is also very unserious. 35 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by chumakk: 5:06pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
He is not a serious follow. So people are eating it and bread went from 200 to 350? Minister, are you eating it? Also your agriculture programs are scam because it didn't affect the price of any food stuff 13 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by omowolewa: 5:07pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
This people don dey feed me with cassava through back door oo o 4 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 5:40pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
I'll try it. Dried cassava is readily available in the market |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by ourema(f): 5:56pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
GEJ policy plan on agricultural products was indeed a right step in the right direction 11 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by obaaderemi: 6:05pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
chumakk:Everybody is eating it.flour millers now mix cassava flour with wheat flour.everybody even shoprite bread.THe bread u ate 2day has cassava in it. 27 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 6:09pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
No wonder the bread sold @shoprite tastes something else and as hard as anything. ..prefer bread from Roban.. |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Kolade9(m): 6:27pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Then how come the price of bread went up? 4 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by PapaBrowne(m): 6:33pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
thesicilian: Yep. That's the beautiful point. You will never have to hear of it, but you've been eating it for over 3 years now. My mum owns a large bakery, so I should know. All flour now comes with at least 10℅ cassava substitute. If I told you there is Potato flour inside the Poundo yam you eat would you know? 45 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 6:34pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Kolade9:Because, there are presently not enough producers. If you join and others join in the production, price will go down. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Kolade9(m): 6:42pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
deji15: producers of cassava flour? issokay |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Totalman1(m): 6:52pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
The problem with most Nigerians is that they talk for the sake of TALKING! Talking should be for passing out information that have practical value. Talk should lead to ACTION!!! The point from this OP to me is that we have to challenge ourselves to LOOK INWARDS, individually and collectively. #TalkIsNotCheap 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by Nobody: 6:54pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Splashme: Thanks to Obasanjo, it was OBJ initiative. 3 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by thesicilian: 6:55pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
PapaBrowne:Thanks, just knowing that for the first time. On a lighter note I'll have to start checking the ingredients of the foods I consume 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by mytime24(f): 9:50pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
All flour now comes with at least 10℅ cassava substitute so cassava don take butter space |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by juman(m): 5:37am On Dec 07, 2016 |
Another achievement under jonathan presidency. APC noise maker has achieved nothing so far. 10 Likes |
Re: Akinwunmi Adesina: We Were Mocked For 'Cassava Bread’, Now Everyone Eats It by tuniski: 6:50am On Dec 07, 2016 |
9jatriot:And obj is from the party apc's 16yrs of growth abi? 7 Likes |
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