Have really been questioning myself on what Cassava peel is being used for in these highly industrialized nations. I am fully aware of the kind of patronages Cassava peel flour and HQCP are presently enjoying as choiced major raw materials in animal feed manufacturing Industries. The case of massive shipment of dried peels (not flour)…
Details
People all over the world have been drinking tea for thousands of centuries, and for good reason. Numerous studies have shown that a variety of teas may boost your immune system, fight off inflammation, and even ward off cancer and heart disease. While some brews provide more health advantages than others, there’s plenty of evidence…
Details
Edible cassava flour can be produced from Cassava chips but such chip has to be food grade. As a matter of fact, it is more economical and considerably cheap, and also less complicated to produce cassava flour through the usage of food grade cassava Chips that the standard method. And this also gives room for…
Details
As a commercial processor, having a knowledge of how to sell and where to sell your garri will determine if your business will be sustainable or not. A commercial processor whose factory is located within a farm settlement because of availability of cassava tuber will struggle to sell profitably within that same village, especially if…
Details
More than Agbado (Maize), CASSAVA is one significant tropical crop in which Nigeria as a country has lot of leverage opportunity on. Beyond being an ordinary food crop, I’m yet to see a single crop grown in Nigeria that has so much industrial applications and potential opportunities like Cassava. The fact that it is relatively…
Details
If we are to compete in the same commodity market where the real volume trade of garri is taking place, can a Commercial Garri Processor really beat the price competitive edge that Rural Cottage Processors have? We all know that the prevailing low purchasing power in the country, which is common to majority of…
Details
As a Commercial Operator, If you have set up your Cassava chips or Garri processing facility in an area with many local processors, I will advise that you engage some of those locals as co-operators in your factory rather than contending with them. This is very crucial especially when you are targeting same market with…
Details
Buying cassava tuber directly from farmers still remains the best raw material procurement option for any Commercial Garri Processor any day. Like we always say, unlike in Fufu processing; garri processing operation does not have the luxury of accommodating additional price mark up by suppliers. The only condition that will make a Commercial Garri Processor…
Details
Potoo is one of the rearrest birds in the world, they are found in South America and are usually only seen at night when they hunt food. The Potoos are today an exclusively New World family, but they apparently had a much more widespread distribution in the past. Fossil remains of Potoos dating from the Eocene have been found…
Details
Natural phenomena or events that usually cause disastrous damage to human properties and sometimes lead to loss of lives are referred to as natural disasters. Notable among these natural disasters are floods, hurricanes, earth quark, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, oil spillage, pandemics, etc. These disasters when occurred always cause a lot of damage, to individuals, communities,…
Details
In Igbo land, of the south eastern Nigeria, yam is the most respected and honoured crop. Before its consumption in every year, it must be honoured and welcomed in a special way in this celebration of new yam festival. The celebration takes place on different dates in different places but must be within…
Details
Bitter Leaf has Latin name as Andrographis Paniculate Ness and a botanical name as Vernonia amygdalina. This plant is thought to have come from tropical Asia. The plant grows wild in open places such as roadsides, in fields, on vacant land rather damp soil or planted in the garden as a medicinal plant. This plant…
Details
What if we tell you that after a long tiring day, you can rely on guava to de-stress you? Yes, guava can definitely release your stress. The magnesium content in this wonder fruit helps combat day-to-day stress by relaxing your muscles and calming you down. Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical…
Details
Palm kernel is among the tropical fruits that attract much attention both within and outside the African continent. It is a popular fruit in Africa due to its cooking oil. Nigeria is one of the leading producers of palm oil worldwide. In 2020, the production of palm oil in Nigeria was estimated to be 1,015…
Details
Modern farms and agricultural operations work far differently than those a few decades ago, primarily because of advancements in technology, including sensors, devices, machines, and information technology. By 2050, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion people – a projected growth of more than 30 % and amounting to an estimated 2.3 billion more…
Details
Land evaluation assesses the performance of land based on a more or less systematic analysis of the physical land conditions and on the impact these have on present and alternative land use systems. Land evaluation is a tool or a technique to compare the various use potentials and benefits that can be obtained from…
Details
In finance, the benefit from investing is when you receive a return on your investment. In other words, to invest means owning an asset or an item with the goal of generating income from the investment or the appreciation of your investment which is an increase in the value of the asset over a period…
Details
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) ranks the sweet potato as the No. 1 most nutritional vegetable and rated it significantly higher in nutrients than the Idaho potato, spinach, or broccoli. The sweet potato or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous…
Details
The major concern for farmers is important loss due to pests and diseases, which is regardless of any production system adopted. Plant pathogens, insects, and weed pests devastate over 40% of all possible sustenance creation every year Pests are organisms which can damage the crops and compete with them. They cause decrease in the plant…
Details
Given meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The availability of food irrespective of class, gender or region is another one. Food security is defined as the availability at…
Details
Food and agriculture production systems are facing unprecedented challenges from an increasing demand for food for a growing population, rising hunger and malnutrition, adverse climate change effects, over exploitation of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and food loss and waste. These challenges can undermine the capacity to meet its food needs now and in…
Details
The Nigerian poultry sector has expanded rapidly in recent years. Local production only meets 30% of the demand for chicken eggs and meat, thus there is huge scope for the industry to expand. Nigeria has the largest annual egg production and second largest chicken population in Africa. The Nigerian poultry industry comprises about 180…
Details
Ikokore, also known as Ifokore, is a Nigerian Yam Pottage dish made with Water Yam (Isu Ewura) instead of the normal Puna/ White Yam. It is a pottage recipe from the Ijebu people of Ogun state, Nigeria. I’m yet to come across an Ijebu person who doesn’t love Ikokore, almost everybody from ijebu ogun state makes Ikokore a…
Details
Welcome to our first article of the year as we take you through the latest fruit in town……… Popularly known as Agbalumo is a tasty local cherry with its succulent fleshy pulp and sweet seeds is a fruit most liked by many. You do not want to eat this fruit when it is…
Details
Description Of Drill Monkey The drill monkey is also referred to as the old world monkey which is related to the baboon and more closely to the mandrills. The old world monkey is a English name given to the family of primates (A group that contains all species commonly related to Lemurs, Monkeys &…
Details
Farming System- Scope, Types, Importance An important part of our responsibilities to partners & potential partners is to continue to educate you on the the versatility of Agriculture and why it is of importance. Farming system is an integrated set of activities that farmers perform in their farms under their resources and circumstances…
Details
HAVE YOU MADE A FARMER HAPPY TODAY BY SPONSORING A CASSAVA OPENED FARM? IF NO DIRECT TO OUR FARM SHOP TO GET STARTED HERE. Cassava products are being sort for all over the globe as a source for producing various products and combination of animal feeds. With looming global warming, cassava has been…
Details
I remember back then in school when a bowl of rice cannot be empty without dicing my bananas on it. Then I never knew the usefulness of what I consumed, all I knew was that it tastes nice and I needed to be full to keep me going for the day. Today we…
Details
I’m pretty sure when seeing cows a lot of people would group them as both males and females. A common mistake which is usually overlooked most of the time. The name “cow” are termed to be females while a male cow is called a ox, bull, stieer under the family name “Cattle” and of…
Details
I think one of the unanswered questions I had from childhood would be either ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ Or “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?’. The morning call you hear on the farm every morning is actually the rooster crowing “cock-a-doodle-doo”. The female is called a hen and she…
Details
No doubt, Some of us who go into restaurants and tell the waitress ‘I want pounded yam with vegetable soup that has plenty assorted snail’. Yep I see you. Well today we are looking into snails. The animals remarkable for their impeccable speed WINK. Snail is a common name for gastropod molluscs that…
Details
SOYBEAN We all must have heard the term soy sauce somewhere before Soybeans. Well today we are diving into the world of soybean. Soybean which goes by the scientific name Glycine max is a leguminous vegetable that grows in tropical and temperate climate. Soybean has been cultivated in China for thousands of years, and…
Details
5 years ago my mother made a heart breaking decision to stop our processed sugar intake and replace it by honey. Well it might not sound like much to you but look at it from the aspect of people who had only been taking processed sugar up till that point, then you would understand…
Details
Nigeria, West Africa is well blessed with varieties of food crops and carrots are no exception, carrot is largely cultivated in the Northern Nigeria. Major producing states are Plateau, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Jos. This crunchy delight is made up of 88% water, 4.7% sugar, 2.8% dietary fiber, 1% ash, 0.9% protein and 0.2% fat.…
Details
I’m pretty sure everyone reading this article has had a taste of chocolate and if you haven’t I urge you to go get one right now! You may ask why? Well chocolates are super nice especially when you have low sugar count. If you want to know where all its deliciousness comes from or…
Details
Did you know? Wrapping sliced fruits with rubber prevent brown coloration….. I bet you don’t know this. We are going to be diving into the world of elasticity and no way better than to use the the importance of “Rubber”. When people talk about “rubber”, they don’t usually specify what kind. There are…
Details
Did you know that the kernel of corn comes in various colours? We eat corn at least once a year and haven’t asked ourselves what are the health benefit? or What makes it so special?. Well brace yourselves cause you are about to find out what this juicy grain has to offer. Maize commonly…
Details
Pigs Feed Pigs are omnivores. This means they eat all kinds of things. To produce a well-balanced diet, a range of other ingredients should be included e.g (vegetables, fruit,meat meal, fishmeal, soybean meal, blood meal, tallow, minerals, vitamins, salt, limestone and vegetables). Farmers have to know a lot about pigs to make a healthy…
Details
What is Papaya? Papaya, (Carica papaya), also called papaw or pawpaw, succulent fruit of a large plant of the family Caricaceae. Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico and neighboring Central America. Papaya is a small, bushy tree with a hollow trunk, large palmate leaves, and oblong smooth-skinned fruits…
Details
Sometime ago, few friends came visiting on a Saturday evening, so we decided to hang out to cool off after a stressful week. As we discussed all along, a friend said “Apparently raw, cut onions absorbs bacteria, so should never slice an onion and eat it later because it’s chock full of bacteria that…
Details
Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit. Mangoes have been named the most widely consumed fruit in the world. … While the skin color of mangoes can vary from green to red, yellow, or orange, the…
Details
What are eggs? Some eggs are laid by female animals of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish, and have been eaten by humans for thousands of years. The most commonly consumed eggs are chicken eggs. Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. A whole egg contains all the…
Details
What is Cassava (Yuca)? Cassava is a root vegetable. It is the underground part of the cassava shrub, which has the Latin name Manihot esculenta. Like potatoes and yams, it is a tuber crop. Cassava roots have a similar shape to sweet potatoes. People can also eat the leaves of the cassava plant. Humans…
Details
In our last topic, we discussed in details Agricultural Investment Opportunities in Nigeria, as agriculture has come to stay because it matters to the future of development, it is more effective than other sectors in reducing poverty and most importantly to improve the livelihood of a booming population. The business Opportunities in Agriculture is…
Details
Wondering if there are investment opportunities in agriculture? However, Nigeria is known to possess riches not only in oil, gas, coal, iron, ore, lead, limestone and zinc but most importantly, it has rich land and water resources that are ripe for agricultural exploitation. Nigeria is blessed with 84 million hectares of arable land, 5.04…
DetailsAvailable on Playstore