Cassarev involves local farmers in Nigerian cassava-to-ethanol project
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Cassarev
is Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform on cassava farming, aimed at
empowering local farmers and families while boosting food production and
sustainability in Nigeria. The initiative provides cassava farmers with modern
farming techniques, intelligence technology, training, loans as well as it ensures
logistics and market for the sale of their farm products. In its first year, it
is expected to reach 4,000 farmers of the Ondo State.
Figure 1. Ondo cassava farm (taken from Cassarev
website)
Cassarev is a value chain program designed to
explore the many advantages of cassava towards the economic development of Ondo
State and it will be the basis for the successful establishment of a cassava-to-ethanol
plant in the region. According to a statement
released by the Ondo State Ministry of Information last month, the facility
being constructed at the Ondo / Linyi Industrial Hub within Ore Industrial Park
will soon be ready for operation. The investment has come after a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ondo State Government and the Linyi
Municipal Republic during the visit of the Ondo governor to China last year. When
completed, the plant will need 300 to 400 tons of cassava daily.
Figure 2. Cassava-to-ethanol plant under
construction in Ore Industrial Park (taken from a post of the Ondo State
Ministry of Information on Facebook)