1) Cassava is a drought-resistant crop that is a staple food and source of income in many African countries. It can remain in the ground for years after harvest.
2) Mozambique has seen increasing cassava production in recent years through improved varieties and farming methods. However, the value chain is not well developed, and most cassava perishes after harvest.
3) The Export Trading Group plans to establish a large-scale cassava processing plant in Mozambique to produce higher value cassava products like starch, flour and processed leaves. Captive farming and outgrower schemes will supply the plant and improve food security.
Cassava markets, value chains and livelihoods in Asia: when uncertain is the...Jonathan Newby
Presentation at GCP21 Conference in the session of Cassava Mosaic Disease in Asia to highlight what is at stake with disease potentially impacting the productivity of this important commercial crop.
Cassava markets, value chains and livelihoods in Asia: when uncertain is the...Jonathan Newby
Presentation at GCP21 Conference in the session of Cassava Mosaic Disease in Asia to highlight what is at stake with disease potentially impacting the productivity of this important commercial crop.
Global markets, local value chains, production systems, and livelihoods of ca...Jonathan Newby
Throughout mainland Southeast Asia, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) has become an important smallholder crop grown by millions of upland farmers. During the last decade, the area of cultivation has expanded rapidly to meet the growing global demand for carbohydrates in various applications. This includes a continuing expansion of both production and processing in Lao PDR. To help demystify the recent trends in the cassava market, we first highlight the connections between the cassava market and other global commodity markets. This demonstrates the need to understand global and regional value chains beyond the local context in which production and primary processing take place.
Research has generated an abundance of technologies that could enhance the productivity and sustainability of these cassava producers. Many of these have been developed with farmers using participatory evaluation methods. The challenge has been disseminating these technologies beyond a projects sphere of influence with adoption levels remaining very low. We hypothesise that, in particular contexts, private-sector value-chain actors have incentives to invest in the promotion of suitable varieties, fertiliser regimes, pest control, and other production practices. In other contexts, there is little incentive for private-sector involvement; and support and/or partnerships from public-sector or non-government actors will be required. As such, understanding the local production and value chain context is also critical to developing sustainable cassava value chains. We use agronomic trial results and value chain mapping to demonstrate the incentives for different cassava sector actor to work with smallholders to maintain and enhance their productivity in different production and market contexts.
Finally, we outline the future challenges facing smallholder farmers and other actors in the cassava sector. Previous research to understand global markets, value chains, production systems, and livelihoods will be critical inputs into the development and extension of new manage management practices and technical solutions to control the impacts of emerging cassava diseases in the region.
Infographic - Cassava - A resilient crop with great potentialCIAT
Did you know that demand for dried cassava is increasing for livestock feed, industry and biofuel? Cassava is a resilient, climate-smart crop. 1/3 of the world production is grown in Asia.
Why invest in livestock-based options for livelihoods, healthy lives and a su...ILRI
Keynote Address by Modibo Traore (FAO) at the ILRI@40 Conference on livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security, economic well-being and healthy lives, Nairobi, Kenya, 1 October 2014
Many developing countries still have a significant quantity of land available that is well adapted to rain-fed crops – about as much as now is being farmed (over 1.7 billion acres). These lands do not include areas inhabited by human beings, forests, or protected areas.
If a country can produce and export biofuels, it will have a stronger economy and more resources to address the needs of the poor.
Africa, with its significant sugar cane/Cassava production potential, is often cited as a region that could profit from experience and technology, although obstacles to realizing it (infrastructure, institutional, etc.) should not be underestimated.
India Maize Summit 2015 - Session 1: P K Joshi, International Food Policy Re...NCDEX Ltd.
Global status of maize production
Status of global maize trade
Dynamics of maize production in India
Favorable environment for maize
Challenges to the maize sector
Solutions to address the challenges
Harnessing Investments to Transforming Bean Value Chains for Better Incomes a...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
From Not-Want to Waste-Not: cassava peels as productCIAT
Presentation at the Cassava Value Chains Workshop
CIAT, Cali, Colombia. 24-26 August 2016
Speakers: I Okike, A Samireddypalle, ML Fadiga, D Enahoro, P Kulakow, G Thiele, C Fauquet, M Blummel
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
Global markets, local value chains, production systems, and livelihoods of ca...Jonathan Newby
Throughout mainland Southeast Asia, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) has become an important smallholder crop grown by millions of upland farmers. During the last decade, the area of cultivation has expanded rapidly to meet the growing global demand for carbohydrates in various applications. This includes a continuing expansion of both production and processing in Lao PDR. To help demystify the recent trends in the cassava market, we first highlight the connections between the cassava market and other global commodity markets. This demonstrates the need to understand global and regional value chains beyond the local context in which production and primary processing take place.
Research has generated an abundance of technologies that could enhance the productivity and sustainability of these cassava producers. Many of these have been developed with farmers using participatory evaluation methods. The challenge has been disseminating these technologies beyond a projects sphere of influence with adoption levels remaining very low. We hypothesise that, in particular contexts, private-sector value-chain actors have incentives to invest in the promotion of suitable varieties, fertiliser regimes, pest control, and other production practices. In other contexts, there is little incentive for private-sector involvement; and support and/or partnerships from public-sector or non-government actors will be required. As such, understanding the local production and value chain context is also critical to developing sustainable cassava value chains. We use agronomic trial results and value chain mapping to demonstrate the incentives for different cassava sector actor to work with smallholders to maintain and enhance their productivity in different production and market contexts.
Finally, we outline the future challenges facing smallholder farmers and other actors in the cassava sector. Previous research to understand global markets, value chains, production systems, and livelihoods will be critical inputs into the development and extension of new manage management practices and technical solutions to control the impacts of emerging cassava diseases in the region.
Infographic - Cassava - A resilient crop with great potentialCIAT
Did you know that demand for dried cassava is increasing for livestock feed, industry and biofuel? Cassava is a resilient, climate-smart crop. 1/3 of the world production is grown in Asia.
Why invest in livestock-based options for livelihoods, healthy lives and a su...ILRI
Keynote Address by Modibo Traore (FAO) at the ILRI@40 Conference on livestock-based options for sustainable food and nutritional security, economic well-being and healthy lives, Nairobi, Kenya, 1 October 2014
Many developing countries still have a significant quantity of land available that is well adapted to rain-fed crops – about as much as now is being farmed (over 1.7 billion acres). These lands do not include areas inhabited by human beings, forests, or protected areas.
If a country can produce and export biofuels, it will have a stronger economy and more resources to address the needs of the poor.
Africa, with its significant sugar cane/Cassava production potential, is often cited as a region that could profit from experience and technology, although obstacles to realizing it (infrastructure, institutional, etc.) should not be underestimated.
India Maize Summit 2015 - Session 1: P K Joshi, International Food Policy Re...NCDEX Ltd.
Global status of maize production
Status of global maize trade
Dynamics of maize production in India
Favorable environment for maize
Challenges to the maize sector
Solutions to address the challenges
Harnessing Investments to Transforming Bean Value Chains for Better Incomes a...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
From Not-Want to Waste-Not: cassava peels as productCIAT
Presentation at the Cassava Value Chains Workshop
CIAT, Cali, Colombia. 24-26 August 2016
Speakers: I Okike, A Samireddypalle, ML Fadiga, D Enahoro, P Kulakow, G Thiele, C Fauquet, M Blummel
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
Presentation during the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) Seminar Series on July 25, 2019 at RDMIC Bldg., cor. Visayas Ave., Elliptical Rd., Diliman, Quezon City
Kanat Tilekeyev, University of Central Asia Institute of Public Policy and Administration.
Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia conference “Agriculture and Rural Transformation in Asia: Past Experiences and Future Opportunities”. An international conference jointly organized by ReSAKSS-Asia, IFPRI, TDRI, and TVSEP project of Leibniz Universit Hannover with support from USAID and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand December 12–14, 2017.
Postharvest Loss Reduction and Agro-processing in Nigeria: Current Developmen...Lateef Dimeji
Postharvest Loss Reduction and Agro-processing in Nigeria: Current Development and Trends by Professor Lateef Oladimeji Sanni - Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development)
President, International Society for Tropical Root Crops
Country Manager, Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVAII)-2008-2019
Anchoring Growth: Unleashing the Wonders of African CassavaLateef Dimeji
Anchoring Growth: Unleashing the Wonders of African Cassava
A Keynote by Prof. L. O. Sanni
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development)
Country Manager, Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (2008-2019)
President, International Society for Tropical Root Crops
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria
Entrepreneurship opportunities in post harvest technologies of plantation crops
Presentation for world cassava congress
1. Cassava – The Root to Prosperity
Thiruvengadam Sridhar – Export Trading Group
Enhancing Cassava Production, Post Harvest Supply Chain
and Processing in Mozambique
Cassava World Africa– Accra- Ghana – March 2016
2. Export Trading Group
• Home sown, Home grown group in Africa
• Number one Group in Maize, Pulses and Fertilizers in Africa
• Operations in 42 countries across the Globe
• 30 years of experience in Africa
• Moved 3 million tons of cargo moved in the year 2014-15
• Group turnover valued at USD 3 billion in the year 2014-15
• Warehouses – over 300 with storage capacity over 1.8 million tons
• Number of employees – over 7,000
• Number of commodities handled - 25
3. Cassava Characteristics
• Cassava is a tuber known by many names yuca, manioc, mandioca, casabe, and
tapioca
• Cassava root is essentially a carbohydrate source. Its composition shows:
– 60-65 % moisture; 20-31 % carbohydrate
– 1-2 % crude protein, a comparatively low content of vitamins and minerals
– the roots are rich in calcium and vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid
• Next to sugar cane and sugar beet, the cassava plant gives the highest yield of
carbohydrates per cultivated area among crop plants
• Cassava plays an important role in developing countries particularly in sub
Saharan Africa as a major source of carbohydrate
• Cassava also offers flexibility to resource-poor farmers because it serves as both
subsistence and a cash crop
• Cassava is flexible with respect to rainfall, soil conditions, seasons for planting
and harvest
• Roots can remain under soil for two to three years but once harvested perishes in
48 to 72 hours
4. Cassava Global - Countries
105 Countries
Latin America Africa Asia
50% 30%20%
5. Cassava Global – Area Under Production
Latin America Africa Asia
12MHa 3.5MHa3MHa
9. Present Cassava Value Chain in South Mozambique
Details Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4
Subsistence farming Fresh Root Sales Dried Cassava Sales
Experimental Industrial
Processing
Consumption
Retailing
Processing
Storage /
Warehousing
Aggregation
On farm
Processing
Cultivation
Non
Commercial
cassava
growing
households
Number
300,000
Production
Volume
300,000 tons
Fresh Roots
Vol 7,000
tons
Retailers
Aggregators
7,000 tons
Fresh roots
Commercial
cassava farmers
number 40,000
Volume 20,000
tons fresh
13,000 tons dry
Rale 5,000 tons
small depots 3
Aggregators
Not
developed
Retailers
10. Present Cassava Value Chain in North Mozambique
Details Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4
Subsistence farming Fresh Root Sales Dried Cassava Sales Experimental Industrial Processing
Consumption
Retailing
Processing
Storage /
Warehousing
Aggregation
On farm
Processing
Cultivation
Non
Commercial
cassava
growing
households
Number 1.3
million
Production
Volume
3 million tons
Fresh Roots
Vol 5,000
tons
Retailers
Aggregators
5,000 tons
Fresh roots
Commercial
cassava farmers
number 300,000
Volume 405,000
tons
140,000 tons dry
Cassava flour and
dried chips
140,000 tons
Mills number 30
Large depots 30,
small depots 150
Aggregators
number 1,000
Service
mills
number
150
Cassava
Cake
number
1
Pilot
plant
number
1
Brewery
number
1
Bread Etha
nol
Beer
RetailersBakeries
11. Enhance, Engineer and Encourage
• Introduce high yielding varieties
• Inputs and crop maintenance
• Increase yield per hectare
Enhance Cassava
Production
• Captive cultivation
• Out-grower schemes
• Partial mechanization and
smooth logistics & transport
Engineer Supply
Chain
• Develop products for local
market
• Design packing and branding
• Develop value added products
such as modified starch
Encourage Local
Market, Export
Value Added
Product
12. Critical Factors in Cassava Processing
• Highly perishable, to be processed within 48 hours of harvest
• Processing generates bio degradable waste and by-products which
if not processed would impact environment
• Requires huge amounts of water for processing
• Generates more than input water as waste water (1.1 litre /kg)
• Mobile processing units may not efficiently overcome waste
management, sourcing water and disposing waste water
• Efficient procurement, transportation and management of logistics
is the key to success
• Knowledge of the local terrain and backward integration with the
growers is essential
13. Plant Capacity and Scale of Economy
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
InvestmentCost
Production Capacity Tons per Hour
CAPACITY PER HOUR VS INVESTMENT COST
14. Cassava Processing Mass Balance for 50,000 tons pa
Root washing
Root Milling
Starch Extraction
Starch Refining
Starch Dewatering
Starch Drying
Starch Cooling
Starch Packing
Cassava 640 tons / day Sand, s0il, heading loss 64 tons/day
Fruit water 656 m3 per day
Water 496 m3 per day
Cassava pulp 192
tons per day
Pulp Dewatering
Cassava Starch 160 tons per day
15. Key Factors in the Project – Raw Material
• Have acquired 5,000 hectares land for captive production to supply
100,000 tons per annum
• Plans are on for irrigation pond in the farm to ensure water supply
• Plans are on to organize out-growers and smallholder farmers for
balance quantity of 100,000 tons
• No plans for complete mechanization, basic mechanization combined
with smallholder farmers
• Planning to streamline planting and harvest of cassava in a cyclic way
for continuous supply of cassava roots particularly during dry season
• Have planned investments in local logistics, storage and
transportation
16. Key Factors in the Project – Byproducts
• Fruit water would to be used for biogas and energy
production
• Plans are on to harvest leaves, process and pack for local
market (Local delicacy called Makopa or Matapa)
• Need to do research on packaging with multilayer films to
ensure shelf life and ease of distribution
• Excess leaf if any above the demand to be processed as
powder for export as animal feed
• In all the processes environmental impact assessment shall
be a key component
17. Key Factors in the Project - Operation
• Own trucking fleet for transportation of roots from own
fields and out-grower fields
• Ensure our own water supply and to best possible extent
power generated from biogas produced from fruit water
• High importance to manpower training in all the gamut of
operations
• Coordination with nodal agencies such as IIAM to introduce
high yielding, pest / virus resistant verities and continuously
monitor for virus and other plant infestations
18. Key Factors – Finished Products and Markets
• Priority shall be serve local market and local food needs such
as Eba, Gari, Ugali and flour for food needs. ETG would
strive to create a local, regional and pan African market for
cassava derivative food
• Processed leaf to be packed in such way to preserve wet paste
of cassava leaves
• Processed dried cassava leaf powder for export
• High quality cassava starch for exports
• Modified starch for specific industrial needs (high value and
low volume)