Capacity Development

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CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR PROMOTING COMMERCIALLY COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISES IN THE HQCF VALUE CHAIN

OBJECTIVE Raise productivity through scaling-up and

scaling-out of the most successful market-oriented production innovations to a new generation of business-oriented cassava farmers engaged in commercial  production, with sustainable links to reliable demand

New approaches are being tested to: resolve the problem of unemployment

among youth, reduce HQCF processing cost and thereby

increase profitability and competitiveness increase cassava productivity/yield and

reduce production cost at small-to-medium scale farm levels

solve the problem of root shortage at HQCF processing enterprises

These are being done by: empowering the youth and smallholder farmers (as

out-growers) in project states through the dissemination of improved farming practices and training them to use modern techniques such as mechanical planting, use of herbicides, use of drought tolerant high yielding cassava varieties, etc. through demonstration  plots

tracking the production costs of both traditional and modern methods of cassava production.

establishing a network of cassava out growers  very close to HQCF processing plants for adequate supply of roots at least cost of transportation.

Processing centers serving as value chain linkage nodes State

LGA/ town

HQCF end-user linkage Status

HQCF processing capacity (t/year)

Fresh cassava requirement (t/ year)

OAMSAL NIG. LTD Ekiti

Oye/ Ayede

Honeywell & Park & Shop Abuja.

Processing 960 4,320

WAHAN FOODS NIG. LTD Ilorin Asa/ Afon

Honeywell, Golden Penny & Vua flour mills.

Processing 250 1,125

OPENDOOR INT. LTD Ogun

Yewa South East/ Joga Orile

Not on a commercial level yet but already has LPOs to supply Nestlé and Dangote.

Processing 192 864

JONAK OSHWA Oyo

Ibarapa Central/ Igbo Ora

Standard Flour Mills and Honeywell Processing 336 1,344

Table 1: HQCF processing plants used as nodes for value chain development.

Location No. of young men

No. of young women

Total area cultivated (ha)

Variety cultivated

Ekiti youth linked to OAMSAL NIG. LTD, Egbe Oba Street Behind L.A. Primary School, Ayede Ekiti, Ekiti State.

22 3 38 TMS 419, TMS 30572

Afon youth linked to WAHAN FOODS NIG. LTD,.Alaji Village Via Afon,Asa, LGA , Kwara State.

19 6 47 TMS 419, TMS 30572

Yewa youth linked to OPENDOOR INT. LTD,.Yewa North LGA, Joga Orile, Ogun State.

19 6 34 TMS 419, TMS 30572

IITA youth linked to JONAK OSHWA, Idere, Igbo Ora.

15 20 21 TME 419, TMS 30572, TMS 97/0581

IITA youth in Iddo in Oyo State (could potentially be linked to IFELODU CICS)

12 TME 419, TMS 30572,

Table 2:The youth involved in the out grower scheme of the project.

Technology    Variety names 

Yield (attained or attainable/ha)

Total cost of production per (USD/ha)

Total revenue (USD/ha)

NPV (USD/ha)

IRR (%)

Manual planting (Traditional production practices)

TMS 30572

20 660.30 804.02 105.43 22

Mechanical planting (plus other modern production practices)

TMS 419 25 629.92 1,005.02 327.24 59

Slide 10: Profitability of cassava production

Table 3:Profitability analysis of fresh cassava  production

Processing centers serving as value chain linkage nodes

State LGA/Town

HQCF processor& end-user linkage

Status HQCF processing capacity (t/ year)

Fresh cassava requirement (t/ year)

NRCRI Abia Umudike Abia State Master Bakers Association

Under renovation

240 960

IFELODUN CASSAVA PROCESSING CICS IN OYO TOWN

Oyo Oyo Flour mills of Nigeria

Under construction

240 960

EGO FARMS Rivers Rupoku Port Harcourt Flour Mills, Abonnema

Processing

240 960

ROSSY ENDEAVOUR Rivers Ahoada West/Ahoada

Seeking for LPO from Port Harcourt flour mills

Not processing, Flash dryer needs new heat exchanger

240 960

Table 4: Additional HQCF processing plants to be used as nodes in year 2.

CONCLUSION The overall aim and objective of the

project is to on the long run build a structure that is profitable and sustainable which all actors in the value chain can successfully adopt and replicate.

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