Industry
Inside Nigeria's cassava value chain
From tuber to starch, garri, flour and chips — how one root supports four industrial product lines and thousands of livelihoods.
Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava, yet a striking share of the crop still leaves the farm without being processed into anything of higher value. The gap between harvest and finished product is where the industry's opportunity sits.
A single tuber can travel four routes. Wet milling and extraction give native starch for food and industrial formulation. Fermentation and roasting give garri. Drying and fine milling give high-quality cassava flour. Slicing and sun-drying give chips for feed and export.
Each route has a different time constraint. Cassava begins deteriorating within 48 hours of harvest, which means processing capacity has to sit close to the farm cluster — not at the port.
Our plants in Ebonyi and Akwa-Ibom States exist for exactly that reason: to shorten the distance between the field and the first processing step, and to keep more of the value inside the communities that grow the crop.
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