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In the past few months, due to various global pressures, cassava price have hiked. However, locally, here is how one can cash in on this golden crop;
Cassava is the basis of a multitude of products, including;
- Brew ingredient in Ngule beer
- Flour: Used for food and preparing confectioneries, such as cakes
- Starches for sizing paper
- Chips, eaten dried or fresh
- Sauce paste, got from the dried leaves
- Peelings fed to livestock
- Starch: unmodified or native starch; modified (physical, chemical, biological) starches for industrial purposes; sweeteners, including high-fructose syrup and glucose (dextrin, monosodium glutamate, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
