{"id":12949,"date":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/new-processing-centres-raise-cassavas-outlook-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:25:55","slug":"new-processing-centres-raise-cassavas-outlook-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/new-processing-centres-raise-cassavas-outlook-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"New processing centres raise cassavas outlook in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_gallery-6-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9430\" src=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_gallery-6-2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>IITA, IBADAN\u2014 Cassava\u2019s profile as a food security  and poverty-reducing crop got a boost with the commissioning of five new processing centres in Sierra Leone, thanks to the Common Fund for Commodities, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture  and Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute  and other partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The processing centres, which are located in five different communities including Waterloo, Bo District, Njala Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Makeni City\/Teko,  and Hamdalai in Sierra Leone, are part of a $1.6 million Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) funded project involving Nigeria, Sierra Leone  and Benin Republic. The project is seeking value addition to cassava  and to consequently boost production  and generate wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will also improve livelihoods,  and incomes of farmers  and stakeholders in the cassava enterprise,\u201d says Prof. Lateef Sanni, Project Coordinator, for the Common Fund for Commodities Funded project. \u201cMore importantly, this will create markets  and drive the production of cassava.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1990, cassava production in Sierra Leone has been on the upbeat climbing from 178,200 metric tons in 1990 to 1,236,852 mt in 2007. Dr. Alfred Dixon, Director General, Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute says the utilisation of cassava  and creation of products such as <i>gari<\/i>\u2014a Nigerian-introduced staple\u2014 has actually created dem and for the crop. Consequently, cassava is now second to rice as a staple with people eating both the leaves  and tubers of the crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The establishment of the processing centres has spurred interest in cassava production in local communities. Farmer Dorris Kargbo, a beneficiary of the cassava centre in Hamdalai Village says, in her community alone, about 40 farmer-groups have been formed for cassava production. Each of the groups comprises about 30 farmers each. The groups will ensure the steady supply of cassava tubers to the processing centre which will process the tubers into <i>gari,<\/i> <i>foofoo<\/i>, cassava cake  and cassava doughnut among others. \u201cThis will create jobs to our people, generate wealth  and reduce poverty. It is our own strategy of contributing to poverty reduction in Sierra Leone,\u201d Kargbo says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditionally, cassava tubers in Sierra Leone are harvested, boiled  and eaten. The limited utilisation of cassava often times results to glut during periods of bumper harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kargbo, while expressing gratitude to the CFC\/IITA\/SLARI project says the processing centres have created a market that will mop up cassava in the future.<br>\u201cThis will reduce postharvest losses  and make cassava production profitable,\u201d she added.<br>END.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Lateef Sanni, <a href=\"mailto:lsanni@cgiar.org\">lsanni@cgiar.org<\/a><br>IITA-CFC Project Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffrey Oliver,<a href=\"mailto:o.jeffrey@cgiar.org\">o.jeffrey@cgiar.org<\/a><br>Charg\u00e9 de communication d'entreprise (international)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Godwin Atser,<a href=\"mailto:g.atser@cgiar.org\">g.atser@cgiar.org<\/a><br>Charg\u00e9 de la communication d'entreprise (Afrique de l'Ouest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bureau de la communication<br>IITA \u2013 Si\u00e8ge<br>Ibadan, Nig\u00e9ria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IITA \u2013 Si\u00e8ge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibadan, Nig\u00e9ria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">URL :<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\"> www.iita.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00c0 propos de l'IITA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L'Afrique est confront\u00e9e \u00e0 des probl\u00e8mes complexes qui minent l'agriculture et la vie des populations. Nous d\u00e9veloppons des solutions agricoles avec nos partenaires pour lutter contre la faim et la pauvret\u00e9. Nos recherches pour le d\u00e9veloppement (R4D), maintes fois r\u00e9compens\u00e9es, reposent sur une r\u00e9flexion cibl\u00e9e et autoris\u00e9e, ancr\u00e9e dans les besoins de d\u00e9veloppement de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Nous travaillons avec des partenaires en Afrique et au-del\u00e0 pour r\u00e9duire les risques pour les producteurs et les consommateurs, am\u00e9liorer la qualit\u00e9 et la productivit\u00e9 des cultures, et g\u00e9n\u00e9rer de la richesse gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l'agriculture. 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