Cassava will become like oil and gas – Dr Fregene

Nigeria will make cassava production so efficient that industrial users will be tempted to invest heavily in the sector, Special Adviser (Technical) to the Minister of Agriculture and Team Leader, Cassava Transformation, Dr Martins Fregene, has said, insisting that cassava in Nigeria will soon start attracting about $500 profit per hectare.

Dr Oredipe said the idea of stable crop processing zone is an innovative policy to make sure that the country has infrastructure line up to support the agricultural revolution that the nation engages in. He stressed that the Stable Crop Processing Zone is a meeting point where things are made to work for farmers

The cassava rollout programme is a joint project between the federal and Kogi State governments with support from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture which provided the cassava stem varieties and Brazilian farmers providing the mechanized technology as project consultant for the processing zone.