The Chief Executive Officer of the National Root Crops Research Institute, Prof. Chiedozie Egesi has disclosed that the federal government is now poised to boost cassava production in parts of the country.
He said the FG will activate cassava business among smallholder farmers and link them with industries for a sustainable value chain system.
He spoke at a Cassava Value Chain Stakeholders’ Workshop organised by the National Agriculture Growth Scheme and Agropocket (NAGS-AP) in Calabar, Cross River State capital.
He said the outcome of the workshop will help the institute develop an executable and feasible framework for the cassava component that would be integrated into the broad-based national strategy.
He assured that the recommendations from the workshop will target five key crops namely; wheat, maize, rice, soybean and cassava.
The workshop with the theme, “Cassava: Maximising the full potentials of Nigeria’s Golden Crop” was notably attended by arrays of critical…
