The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development transformation agenda is setting out to create over 3. 5 million jobs from a number of agricultural products value chains.

Cassava looms large in the list of the products which include rice, sorghum, cocoa and cotton. It therefore becomes timely to offer advice on how interested investors can invest in cassava processing. Investment justification

The transformation agenda of the present government has given the flour mills operating in Nigeria three months ultimatum to comply with the directive that all the wheat flour produced and sold in Nigeria must contain 10 percent cassava flour. This has made the production of cassava flour lucrative in the country again.

It has been tested and passed that wheat flour containing 10 percent cassava flour produced very good bread and other confectioneries. In this regard, demand for cassava flour will be in hundreds of thousand metric tons annually as flour mills are now issuing Local Purchase Orders for supply of cassava flour.


Other incentives introduce by the government are: Tax rebates for bakers and flour mills utilising cassava flour and zero percent tariff for cassava flour manufacturing machines. In addition to this, government has increased the tariff on wheat flour to 40 percent. This is aimed at making cassava flour price to be competitive enough.

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