AFAN blames cassava glut on absence of value addition

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria has blamed the much talked about cassava glut in the country on the lack of processing to ensure value addition.

The national Vice-President, AFAN, Chief Tola Adepomola, said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Ibadan.

Adepomola noted that, during the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, which initiated the Presidential Initiative on Cassava, there was a lot of hullabaloo about cassava glut.

He said, “There is glut because cassava tubers are not processed into products that can be kept on the shelf for a long period.

“There is glut because cassava is not processed into high quality cassava flour and chips that can be exported to other countries.”

According to him, the glut is in respect of tubers and not cassava products.

“We are not processing our cassava tubers into starch. They are importing most of the starch we are using in Nigeria today,’’ he said.
Source:punchng