Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Cassava chips and marketing


Cassava chips
Cassava chips are non fermented cylindrically shaped products of about 3-5mm in diameter, obtained from freshly harvested cassava tubers. The chips are important ingredients for compounding livestock and fish feeds. Though Cassava provides good carbohydrates that can be substituted for the grains in animal feed, it must not be used as a sole ingredients because it is deficient in nutrients such as proteins, vitamins and minerals. Therefore it must be combined with feeds that are rich in these nutrients. Cassava chip is also being used in the production of ethanol (biofuel) which is now gaining ground as alternative source of energy to fossil fuel.

Marketing of cassava chips
With the increase in cassava processing activities and introduction of various cassava products, the market for cassava products is expanding. Both local and foreign buyers are going to places for cassava chips as raw materials for industries.

Local feed producers are buying and using cassava chips to compound animal feeds at a reduced cost.

Ethanol producing companies which are springing up in the country need cassava chips for production of ethanol.

China companies need large quantities of starch and cassava chips and they are looking up to Nigeria, being the largest producer of cassava in the world.

European importers are also looking up to Nigeria for large quantity of cassava chips for their livestock industries. They are using cassava chips to compound livestock feeds for production of milk, meat, eggs and other materials. Major cassava importing countries are China, Japan, Indonesia, United States, Canada and European countries. These countries are also using cassava chips and starch for their biogas projects.

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