Helping Hands internerly

Cassava farms Cassava is either the first or the second most important staple food in many sub-Saharan African countries. Cassava production and processing practices remain largely habitual in most of the producing countries despite the high potentials for its commercial production and processing, its export potential, and its use in local industries to reduce import expenditure on substitute imported products. Most cassava farmers are either not aware of available modern technologies for growing and processing cassava or lack the ability to use them. There is also paucity of cassava production specialists, agribusiness experts, processing and, agro-machinery experts to provide advice to farmers, processors, product assemblers, and other value chain actors. The lack of technical advice hinders the ability of small and medium scale farmers to improve value chain efficiency and profitability of their cassava enterprises. It contributes to the inability of most farme...