Sibrah:
He promoted it during Jo's time but I can't remember him promoting it during his time.

He did. He introduced it to stimulate demand for cassava. Didn't work in his time as it also didn't work during Jonathan's time. However it is working now (according to reports) due to high cost of imported wheat

Splashme:



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

yeye....I doubt if you have been born wen ,Obj ruled this country ,cos he was the first to initiate the good ideas, I knew those of person u are...synchop ants...

egbonnla:
No wonder breads are no longer tasting good the way Agege bread used to taste those days.

You do not need the taste when combined with Ewa Agonyi or butter.

mfm04622:


Am not sure, but I think the maximum percentage of Cassava flour can't be more than 10% before it becomes noticeable. So imported wheat flour is still the main component of flour we use in Nigeria. With weak Naira make everything we import expensive

point is, you don have a proof?


10% will go a long way in reducing the costs of bread not raise it to the roof.

Our bread are still 99% floor, the price of bread is the proof.

MetaHuman:
point is, you don have a proof?


10% will go a long way in reducing the costs of bread not raise it to the roof.

Our bread are still 99% floor, the price of bread is the proof.

Utilisation of 10% cassava flour is why the price of flour have not gone up higher!

Lilimax:

I beg to disagree cos being literate has nothing to do with this. It is even the literate ones that are the culprit in adulteration.

Sadly you are right, if only Nigerians know what they are consuming from our manufacturing companies we would rather eat our raw foods at least we are sure of that.

The professionals create/formulate methods to produce foods with similar mouthfeel and physical appearance to the real ones and we won't even know the difference when we eat them.

Cassava bread initiative was started by GEJ .....if u have any info on how OBJ initiated kindly share it online...give credit to whom it is due

The Minister said the recently introduced cassava bread, which has 20 to 30 per cent inclusion of cassava flour, was now available in shops across the country, adding that the challenge was how to get the product to various levels that needed interventions.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/150687-nigerian-government-cassava-bread-programme-gulp-n10billion-says-agric-minister.html

niyidenrele:
yeye....I doubt if you have been born wen ,Obj ruled this country ,cos he was the first to initiate the good ideas, I knew those of person u are...synchop ants...

yetseyi:



Sadly you are right, if only Nigerians know what they are consuming from our manufacturing companies we would rather eat our raw foods at least we are sure of that.

The professionals create/formulate methods to produce foods with similar mouthfeel and physical appearance to the real ones and we won't even know the difference when we eat them.

True!
it always better to consume wholesome foods instead of processed ones

Keneking:
Cassava bread for pizza abi
Cassava bread for sandwich abi
Cassava bread for burger abi

Useless government

What a clown you are. Was it not GEJ's government that introduced cassava bread?

http://www.socialistnigeria.org/paper/2005/march/7.html



Can Obasanjo Give Us Our Daily Bread?

By: Adeola Soetan



The cassava bread policy of Obasanjo regime, according to its designers, is to compel, by legislation, the inclusion of cassava flour in bread making and other confectionaries in Nigeria, in the ratio of ninety percent (90%) wheat flour and ten percent (10%) cassava flour as against the subsisting 100% whole wheat bread presently consumed.



By November 2004, government mandated the implementation of this policy to commence January, 2005. The Special Assistant to the President on Food Security, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetunji, placed an advert in major newspapers including The Guardian, Saturday January 1st, 2005, titled "BEHOLD NIGERIAN BREAD", wherein she stressed the need to "follow-up on the implementation of the new policy measure of the Federal Government on 10% inclusion of cassava flour in bread and other confectioneries to meet the challenge of demand by the Flour Millers".



A programme schedule was announced for sensitization and training workshop on production and packaging of high quality cassava flour in the twenty seven cassava producing states in Nigeria. By this, the government and its agencies would like to be taken serious on this policy. But apprehension and cynicism that greeted this policy by major stakeholders, farmers, processors, millers and master bakers were confounding. Most perceive the programme as propaganda or mere lip service to food security in Nigeria.



Babangida's regime had taken them through a similar fantasy before in the hey days of Directorate of Food Road and Rura Infrasstructure (DFRRI) when wheat was supposed to be banned in order to allow millers and bakers to look inward and substitute cassava for maize. The programme crashed just like the disgraced dictator government crashed out of office.



Will there be any difference this time around and can Nigeria agriculture, in its present mode, meets the expected demand for cassava and other necessary inputs in place for any impact of this policy to be felt by the people including the consumers? The objective realities in agriculture and its allied enterprises in Nigeria do not suggest that any meaningful achievement can be made. The Nigeria bread of composite wheat and cassava flours may, at best, continue to be a mere conjecture of Obasanjo and his team.



Cassava is the fourth staple food in the world and Nigeria is the largest producer of the crop. Cassava products like Garri, Lafun (dried flour) are consumed by over 70% of the Nigerian population making the average demand for cassava estimated at about 12,900 metric tones per annum. Notwithstanding the obvious potential of cassava as a treasure crop that can turn around the economy of the nation, its cultivation, processing and marketing have suffered the same fate of neglect like other aspects of agriculture partly due to adverse effect brought by the commercial production of petroleum, corruption and inconsistency of government agricultural programmes and policies. So, any attempt to neglect general agriculture and isolate one or two crops for supposed development is an exercise in futility. Agricultural problems need holistic approach. That Nigerians still starve with the abundant agricultural resources shows that the anti-poor Obasanjo regime cannot be trusted in its cassava bread project.



Nigeria has about 98.8 million hectares of land with 72% of its potentially cultivable, making agriculture the largest employer of labour with over 60% total labour force in agriculture. Over three decades ago, before "oil boom", agriculture accounted for over 50% of the country's Gross Domestic Product and its contribution to the foreign exchange earning was over 70% before it dropped down to an all time low of 4%.



The parlous state of agriculture is a culmination of anti-poor, neo-liberal economic policies of successive capitalist regimes in Nigeria, which peaked with the total embrace of IMF/World Bank Structural Adjustment Programme by governments, starting with Babangida which Obasanjo has further carried to its "logical conclusion" of total deregulation of the down stream sector of oil and removal of subsidy on agricultural products, leaving prices to be determined by the blind market forces of capitalism called open market economy.



To underline how unserious the government is in developing cassava cultivation to meet both local and foreign consumption, a foremost cassava farmer, Pastor Segun Adewunmi who cultivates 240 hectares (about 3,600 plots of land or 2.4km) of cassava has this to say: "Our cassava can not meet the world market for now because the cost of production is more than three times the cost of production elsewhere. Even, Ghana is faring better….The cost of producing a ton of cassava here in Nigeria is about N5,000, whereas in countries such as South Africa, it is less than N1,500.." On availability of agriculture, loan to farmers, he also has this to say: "I have buildings in choke areas that could stand as collateral. I equally have farm implements like bulldozers, ploughers, tractors and everything it takes to be a mechanized farmer. But regrettably, I have not in any way been able to obtain any fund or loan from the Nigeria Agricultural Co-operative Bank (NACB) for the past four years…. You only hear in the media how much has been budgeted for agriculture, but sadly enough, we do not know where the money goes to". (The Guardian July 31, 2004). If an educated mechanized farmer can face this harrowing experience, what will be the fate of over 75% Nigerian subsistent farmers who are illiterate and poor?



Only a government of the working people consciously striving to better the lot of everybody in society can muster the necessary massive technological and financial resources needed to positively turn agriculture and other key sectors of the economy around on a permanent basis. But the individualistic and capitalist, neo-liberal policies which form the bedrock of this government’s economic policy can never make this attainable.

There was debate about a cassava bread law under Obasanjo which I believe was passed in 2006. Not 100% sure of the latter but people can check

mfm04622:


He did. He introduced it to stimulate demand for cassava. Didn't work in his time as it also didn't work during Jonathan's time. However it is working now (according to reports) due to high cost of imported wheat

Won't say it didn't work .It was introduced in 2005/2006 and these things take time since it has to be improved as a technology and people have to be convinced. It is dishonest for Adeshina to claim the policy

Well, putting money where your mouth is determines the success of any project.....

Agric minister said that part of the fund was being used to acquire some 18 large scale high quality Cassava Flour Processing Plants from China to produce high quality cassava flour to scale up the demand for inclusion into wheat flour by master bakers and confectioneries
Federal Government on Sunday said it plans to spend about N10 billion to strengthen various organs that would help scale up the supply of cassava flour in the country.
The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that the scaling up of cassava supply would ensure a gradual replacement of wheat flour in bread by 50 per cent within the next three to five years.
The Minister said the recently introduced cassava bread, which has 20 to 30 per cent inclusion of cassava flour, was now available in shops across the country, adding that the challenge was how to get the product to various levels that needed interventions.
He said plans were underway to put the chain together to enable the government to achieve 50 per cent cassava inclusion in bread within the next three years, adding the Federal Government had provided N9.9 billion under the Cassava Bread Fund to enable the production chain scale up to the target.
The 30 per cent cassava inclusion in bread and other confectionery products, he said, had resulted in a decline by five per cent in the importation of wheat, from 4.2 million metric tonnes to 3.7 million metric tonnes.
Mr. Adesina said that part of the fund was being used to acquire some 18 large scale high quality Cassava Flour Processing Plants from China to produce high quality cassava flour to scale up the demand for inclusion into wheat flour by master bakers and confectioneries.
The Federal Government had also embarked on the training of the Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs, SMEs, and had provided facility to the Bank of Industry, BOI, to enable them acquire machinery to produce high quality flour for bakers.

The minister said that so far, government had trained 135 SMEs on the use of new flash dryers to increase the quantity of cassava flour production across the country, adding thst 375 master bakers had been trained on the use of chillers, rotary enzymes as part of the process to fully achieve set goal.
BOI would also provide the master bakers with modern equipment, with more than 3000 master bakers to be trained to enhance the process of baking the bread.
NAN

ojun50:
He actually mean our ladies love big cassava

You sure? Cuz na CUCUMBER dey trend oh

omowolewa:
This people don dey feed me with cassava through back door oo o

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@ Topic: who knows if we have local millers who bag whole cassava flour or those that retail please? Thanks

9jatriot:
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.

juman:
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.

Dont mind those guy, its like they started reading dailies when GEJ get to Presidency. In 2004 or 2005, I can remember that Life Flour implemented it but not perfect (Maybe Dangote Flour too), you have to use Potassium Bromate to make the Bread look nice

juman:
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.

Obasanjo achieved a LOT

Pension reform is at the top of my list. I won't explain this in much detail because it is a matter for "whom it concerns" probably the greatest achievement by any president
He paid off more than $30 billion in debt, raised the foreign reserves and left substantial savings

Banking reform which has left a strong platform for modernizing the sector
he could have done more but he did better than most.

He had many failings as well which I can enumerate but this is not the place or time
He ran a government that was truly national which is a far cry fro Yar'adua,Jonathan or Buhari

Cassava Bread was an initiative of the Obasanjo government in 2013.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/obasanjo-shares-40-cassava-bread-with-african-leaders/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/134415-obasanjo-exports-cassava-bread-to-tanzania.html


The Jonathan administration however, did very good by adopting and further pushing the policy.

mfm04622:


Utilisation of 10% cassava flour is why the price of flour have not gone up higher!

proof?

Maybe na him family dey chop the cassava bread. Ain't seen no phucking cassava bread anywhere in lagos.

Reptyle:
Cassava Bread was an initiative of the[b] Obasanjo government in 2013.[/b]


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/obasanjo-shares-40-cassava-bread-with-african-leaders/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/134415-obasanjo-exports-cassava-bread-to-tanzania.html


The Jonathan administration however, did very good by adopting and further pushing the policy.

No Obasanjo was not in government in 2013 . The initiative started over 2004-2006 when he actually WAS IN government.

Kolade9:
Then how come the price of bread went up?

Ripple effects... Every other commodity has gone up. Bread makers too would increase their prices so they can afford rice, beans, palm oil etc. The country is experiencing the worst kind of inflation in its history. All thanks to the Cowman from Daura.

Obasanjo government initiated the introduction of Cassava flour, Jonathan only executed it.

There was this certain bread i ate 2 weeks back...it was like i was eating fufu...i could swore i practically tasted and smelled that distinctive scent of akpu in that bread. i might have eaten fufu bread oo

DauraDullard0:
Ripple effects... Every other commodity has gone up. Bread makers too would increase their prices so they can afford rice, beans, palm oil etc. The country is experiencing the worst kind of inflation in its history. All thanks to the Cowman from Daura.

issokay

dullard

...So Apc zombie supporters are now falling over themselves squealing that the Cassava initiative which they mocked years ago but unknowingly has been consumming voraciously is now the work of Obasanjo?..


...a President whose party PDP the confused charlatans holds responsible for every single wrong in this country since independence??..wonderful!



....Anyway,Obasanjo true to his unserious nature,glossed over it..Jonathan embraced and pursued it vigorously..and the masses are enjoying it cos a purely wheat-based bread would be completely out of reach of the common man especially with this recession caused by the super dundee in Aso-Rock.



....We are still waitng for a single policy from this terrible Buhari/apc administration that the masses enjoy.




.....

thesicilian:
Who is 'everyone'? Never even heard of cassava bread.

I taya oo.


Same here

We have known since na. Not the bread o; we've known some companies mix in cassava flour for production.

omonnakoda:

Obasanjo achieved a LOT

Pension reform is at the top of my list. I won't explain this in much detail because it is a matter for "whom it concerns" probably the greatest achievement by any president
He paid off more than $30 billion in debt, raised the foreign reserves and left substantial savings

Banking reform which has left a strong platform for modernizing the sector
he could have done more but he did better than most.

He had many failings as well which I can enumerate but this is not the place or time
He ran a government that was truly national which is a far cry fro Yar'adua,Jonathan or Buhari

Someone like him deserve to be a councillor or a local government chairman not a president of a country.

juman:


Somebody like him deserve to be a councillor or a local government chairman not a president of a country.

Maybe ,it says a lot more about the people in the country than about him that he became Head of State twice

Obasanjo did cassava revolution not Jonathan just like Buhari has done for rice.