Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava, with a yearly output of about 50 million tonnes.
Cassava production is projected to increase to up to 150 million tons by 2020. Nearly half of the quantity of cassava produced are processed into garri, elubo and other cassava-based staple foods.
For every ton of cassava processed, 10%-15%~125kg/tons, are lost in form of wet peels, which are poorly utilized, dumped as waste or burnt.
Hundreds of thousand women spend up to ten hours a day in various cassava processing centres, peeling cassava and earning less than $2.5 dollars a day.
Attached herewith is a video of a technique suitable for converting Waste Cassava Peels into useful Animal feed, providing a business opportunity for Cassava farmers and processors through the sales of cassava mash feed.