Garri is a staple food. It is eaten by almost everybody. It is a product of cassava. The other end product of cassava is starch. Beyond laundry use, starch is a raw material for pharmaceuticals, ...

Ms Akinbade is the coordinator of the Smallholder Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON), Oyo State chapter. She farms and processes cassava and in this episode, she shares her experience with ...

Joy Itamah, a farmer, grows crops and vegetables and also rears goats in Oyo State. She also processes cassava into garri. She farms on a 300-hectare land using both human labour and machines. She ...

The Osun State Government has called on caterers and food vendors in the state to stop the dangerous act of using paracetamol to tenderise meat and also the use of ‘hypo’ a bleaching detergent for ...

Garri na one kain flour wey dem dey make from cassava tubers, and pipo for Nigeria and oda parts of West Africa dey chop am well-well. Some pipo dey use am make eba or soak am inside water join am wit ...

The advent of technology has birthed the development of a small-scale gari production machine by an unknown Chinese company. Traditionally, the processing of gari often requires the cassava to be ...

Most of the gari produced in Ghana comes from rural communities by small farmer households. Going through most rural communities in Ghana, the smell of fermenting cassava hovers over the communities, ...

We have the tractor, then for the processing, for example the garri that we fry, or the flour, we do cassava flour as well, we do the animal, the peels that people throw away, we process it as a raw ...