{"id":12943,"date":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/from-black-gold-to-green-gold-cassava-to-power-nigerias-drive-to-top-20-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","slug":"from-black-gold-to-green-gold-cassava-to-power-nigerias-drive-to-top-20-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/from-black-gold-to-green-gold-cassava-to-power-nigerias-drive-to-top-20-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"From black gold to green gold – Cassava to power Nigeria’s drive to Top 20 in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria says it will harness the opportunities presented by cassava value addition technologies developed by IITA and partners to drive the economy and rank among the top 20 global economies by the year 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mounds of cassava waiting to be processed at a glucose syrup factory in Nigeria.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move is part of the country\u2019s strategy to diversify its economy which is currently dominated by the oil sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCassava is considered because it offers unprecedented opportunities that would further broaden the foundation for economic viability and improved competitiveness particularly in non-oil revenue earnings,\u201d says the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Achike Udenwa, at the commissioning of two small and medium scale cassava processing enterprises in Abuja and Nasarawa states on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both projects are funded by the Common Fund for Commodities and executed by IITA with the Federal Ministry of Commerce as the project coordinating agency and Farm Infrastructure Foundation serving as a technical partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from its vast oil reserves, Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world but the crop suffers huge postharvest losses occasioned by inadequate processing enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While commending IITA-CFC, Udenwa says no meaningful development, economic growth, wealth creation and poverty eradication can be achieved in any country without an efficient and effective industrial processing through value addition to agric commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTherefore the establishment of these projects will go a long way in providing impetus to numerous cassava processors in the country on \u2018best practice\u2019 and quality assurance. I am convinced that the st andard of production and processing in Nigeria would be greatly improved using these facilities,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development of value chain projects seek to shift the country\u2019s attention from oil,\u2014a commodity that currently provides more than 90 per cent of the country\u2019s revenue\u2014generate employment and create sustainable wealth, says Lateef Sanni, IITA-CFC Project Coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently supporting small and medium enterprises in the cassava value chain, the US$1.6 million project, which covers Nigeria, Benin and Sierra Leone, is also providing beneficiaries access to new cassava cultivars, product quality improvement and market expansion for sustainable enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanni says cassava can now be processed to several value-added products such as flour, starch, fortified cassava gari, fufu and tapioca, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charg\u00e9 de communication d'entreprise (international)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charg\u00e9 de la communication d'entreprise (Afrique de l'Ouest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureau de la communication
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