Nigeria is the highest producer of Cassava in the world( congratulations).

Wait a minute, it takes at least six to seven months to plant and harvest the earliest specie of cassava, some of the specie take up to one year to harvest. The average yield per hectare of cassava in Nigeria is 10 tons, it takes about three to four weeding activities or more before harvest.( If you don’t want to use herbicide) After all these, putting in your best in terms of the best agronomic practices and you sell for N50,000 to N55,000 per ton. Now compare this to someone who sells dry cassava chips for N250,000 per ton, it takes maximum about 7days to process it. There will be no cassava chips if you didn’t farm cassava, so at this point who makes more money, you the farmer who waited for six to seven months or more to sell for N50,000 a ton or the person who processes.

On the other hand would you rather process some of your cassava and make more money.
There are many things that you can turn your cassava into. In these days of healthy living you can do :

1. Spinach eba or Spinach fufu.( You can package it )
2. High quality cassava flour
3. Garri ( you can do Coconut Garri)
4. Odourless fufu
5. Starch( there are different uses of cassava starch, can also exported)
6. Abacha(Shredded Cassava flakes) sold in Nigeria and highly needed abroad sell for over £40 for 1kg( N28,000 for 1kg.
7. Cassava peels are processed into high quality cassava feed (HQCF) can also exported.
8. Ethanol

I don’t want to make this write-up a lengthy one, there are about 30 things that you can process your cassava into. So take advantage and process because as a farmer you are at the bottom of the production triangle,( you do the hard work and you are the least paid) so move from producing raw material into production of finished goods or semi finished goods, add value to your labour and smile to the bank.

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