Hunger? Eat cassava. Poverty? Export cassava. Bad roads? Well, maybe cassava could even fix that. The people of Nigeria, however, knew better. The president, a gentleman from the creeks, stood before ...

Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol. More from Big Business Nigeria is the globe's ...

Agriculture is often heralded as the cornerstone of Nigeria’s economy, yet its vast potential remains underutilised due to ...

In efforts to encourage youths to go into agriculture as well as explore and boost cassava value chain, the governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has commissioned two cassava processing mills in ...

There are also types with different tuber sizes, growth rates, starch production and drought tolerance. While cassava has ...

For five months last year, cassava tuber quality was very poor which is a natural climate challenge that caused a lot of havoc for agricultural production. Second challenge is the economic problem ...