What is the future of cassava production?

What is the future of cassava production?

Cassava is a staple food consumed in both rural and urban areas of Nigeria, a country with a population of about 120 million people. In recent years, it has also been transformed from being a subsistent crop to industrial cash crop. Cassava is one of the most actively marketed food products and is the most promising in terms of growth and new market opportunities. There is also a regular surplus of cassava in most producing countries. Even so, several governments in Africa have taken positive steps to promote cassava production for industrial processing since many of these countries have large capacities for cassava production.

The major beneficiaries of a more diversified world market for cassava will be Sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, the bulk of current cassava production is mostly processed into food products, indicating an excellent opportunity for raising the cassava production level with the expansion of industrial starch processing. There is a great deal of extra land available in Nigeria and much of this unused land is quite suitable for growing crops. Certainly an increased cassava production, in order to convert it into an industrial base, is very possible by increasing the area of land farmed without any need for irrigation.

Cassava starch prodcution

Cassava starch processing machine and cassava starch processing chart flow

Many medium and large factories choose to start cassava starch processing plant. Following are the cassava starch processing main steps:

Root reception.

Raw material handling.

Efficient washing makes refining easier.

Rasping.

Use of sulphur.

Extraction.

Concentrating the crude starch slurry.

Refining.

Hydrocyclones.

Cleaning in place.

Drying and sifting.