BY GABRIEL EWEPU

ABUJA- THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said the federal government will
soon release N10 billion for cassava bread development fund
and to further boost the cassava production.

Adesina who was represented the Senior Technical Assistant to the minister of Agriculture, Dr. Adetunji Oredipe disclosed this in Kogi State at the Cassava GES Roll Out at Agbadu Staple Crop Processing Zone, SCPZ, in Kabba Bunu Local
Government Area of the state.

He explained Government established the Cassava Bread Development Fund, which would be funded through the tariff on wheat flour. He further said that the Cassava Bread Development Fund would also be used to support research and development efforts on cassava bread, training of master bakers, support for master bakers for the acquisition of new equipment for production.

Speaking on the Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES), the
Minister said that the GES will allow the farmers to produce
additional food because the farmers will receive their improved cuttings and fertilisers. "This year we are taking cassava GES programme to scale, we have designed different levels of support to different categories of farmers and we are
committed to making this work.

"This marks another major milestone in our drive to ensure
that the modern cassava farmers adopt the best available
agricultural practices starting with the use of improved inputs;
cuttings and fertilisers. In doing this, we will ensure that our
farmers, the real cassava farmers who should be the real
beneficiaries of government policy are well targeted by
government programme", he said.

According to Adesina, to assure sustainable supply of high
quality cassava flour, a secure of low interest and long term
financing from the China Exim Bank for the importation of 18
large scale high quality cassava flour processing plant was
made to be owned and operate by the private sector. In his
address, Commissioner for Agriculture, Kogi Sate, Dr. Olufemi
Bolarin noted that the Governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada has
keyed into the ATA in Agriculture by encouraging and assisting Kogi State peasant farmers in all facets of agricultural production.

He said that the state government has subsidised agro
chemicals, Fertilisers to the farmers to enable them participate
fully in agricultural production, stressing that the state
government had earmarked in all the 3 senatorial district huge
area of land for agricultural activities such as cassava, maize,
etc, to employ the services of the teeming youth.

According to him, cassava has been discovered to play a vital
role in the federal government ATA in agricultural sub-sector of the economy, adding that in agriculture, there were various
sector that should be encourage and educate the youth to
indulged to assist in reducing youth restiveness and
unemployment such as fisheries, etc.

He therefore advice the youth to take interest in agriculture,
saying that the emergence of mechanised system of agriculture has made it easy and conductive for the graduates to imbibe the culture of farming in order to be self- reliant and drastically reduce unemployment enveloping the whole world.

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Keep throwing nigeria's money into this pit calles cassava bread, meanwhile thailand is making billions off the rice needs of nigerians. They can't belive their luck, a country that can produce rice but no vision to drive it. They are now even paying lobbyist in nigeria to make sure nigeria's rice industry is the the gutter pepetually, so we keep buying from them. This country lacks vision. No roadmap to success. Just throw everything at the wall and see which sticks.

Symphony007: Keep throwing nigeria's money into this pit calles cassava bread, meanwhile thailand is making billions off the rice needs of nigerians. They can't belive their luck, a country that can produce rice but no vision to drive it. They are now even paying lobbyist in nigeria to make sure nigeria's rice industry is the the gutter pepetually, so we keep buying from them. This country lacks vision. No roadmap to success. Just throw everything at the wall and see which sticks.

Dont you think this is line with what you are talking about? I mean with cassava bread we'll be able to save money from the importation of flower. My only concern is that Nigerian Government are always set or about to do something. Before i can trust this project until i see something like "Nigerian Government Completed Installation Of Cassava Bread Plant".

adisarasaq:

Dont you think this is line with what you are talking about? I mean with cassava bread we'll be able to save money from the importation of flower. My only concern is that Nigerian Government are always set or about to do something. Before i can trust this project until i see something like "Nigerian Government Completed Installation Of Cassava Bread Plant".

how many nigerians eat cassava bread? What makes them think all the money going into this will make nigerians accept it? You can make the arguement that overtime people will grow to eat it but how many billions will be spent first? Meanwhile nigerian consume millions and millions of bags of rice annually. The market is already there. It's just for us to produce ours and gradually push out asian rice. Can you imagine how much we will gain?

Symphony007: Keep throwing nigeria's money into this pit calles cassava bread, meanwhile thailand is making billions off the rice needs of nigerians. They can't belive their luck, a country that can produce rice but no vision to drive it. They are now even paying lobbyist in nigeria to make sure nigeria's rice industry is the the gutter pepetually, so we keep buying from them. This country lacks vision. No roadmap to success. Just throw everything at the wall and see which sticks.

Will this inverted IGNORAMUS ever keep his mouth ffucking SHUT?? ..... If you do not know of d happenings in d Rice sector presently, why not ask around or find out b4 opening ya mouth Wide in public and allowing thrash flow out...

Symphony007: how many nigerians eat cassava bread? What makes them think all the money going into this will make nigerians accept it? You can make the arguement that overtime people will grow to eat it but how many billions will be spent first? Meanwhile nigerian consume millions and millions of bags of rice annually. The market is already there. It's just for us to produce ours and gradually push out asian rice. Can you imagine how much we will gain?

Nigerians eat bread as much as we eat rice no argument about that, you can only tell us that you don't eat bread and if you do eat bread, do you know (unaware to you) how many percentage of cassava flower in it? You may try to deny it but that just the plain truth even those big company producing slice bread are the one patronising cassava farmer.

adisarasaq:

Nigerians eat bread as much as we eat rice no argument about that, you can only tell us that you don't eat bread and if you do eat bread, do you know (unaware to you) how many percentage of cassava flower in it? You may try to deny it but that just the plain truth even those big company producing slice bread are the one patronising cassava farmer.

give me statistics, how many nigerian bakeries buy cassava or use cassava flower for their bread. How many nigerians have consumed cassava bread. How much return from investment has the nigerian government gotten from the billions of public money spent on cassava bread. I'm waiting...

taharqa2: Will this inverted IGNORAMUS ever keep his mouth ffucking SHUT?? ..... If you do not know of d happenings in d Rice sector presently, why not ask around or find out b4 opening ya mouth Wide in public and allowing thrash flow out...

i will be make a desent to your low level of name calling..i will just seek of you to furnish me on the happenings in the nigerian rice sector. Please i'm listening.