The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa Project (CAVA II) recently held a two-day international training of trainers’ workshop at Oyo State College of Agriculture, Igboora. The workshop facilitated by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) was part of strategies …
In furtherance of its goal to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers, CAVA II Nigeria took its sensitisation and identification programmes to smallholder farmers clustered in villages in Oyo and Ogun states. The sensitisation programmes, which were carried out between …
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In a bid to create more markets for smallholder farmers in the country, the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVA II), Nigeria recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with three top cassava companies: Thai Farms International, Allied Atlantic Industries Limited …
Experts from the University of Greenwich and the Natural Resource Institute, United Kingdom have rated made-in-Nigeria flash dryers as a good tool for cassava processing that can be exported. The assessment was made by Dr Andrew Graffham, a food safety …
Cassava: Adding Value for Africa’s effort over the years, in collaboration with other stakeholders paid off recently in Nigeria as the biggest wheat miller in the country, Flour Mills of Nigeria unveiled a cassava-wheat composite flour which contains 10 percent …
A robust cassava bread sector is necessary for sustained economic growth and high-paying jobs in Nigeria, the Technical Adviser(Cassava Value Chain) to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , Mrs Oluwatoyin Adetunji, has said. To achieve this, Adetunji said …
Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners in the cassava value chain in Nigeria have voiced out their displeasure over non implementation of the minimum guarantee price for high quality cassava flour (HQCF), approved by the federal government. The SMEs lamented …