GROUP 2

CASSAVA VALUE CHAIN

TEAM COMPOSITION• MUNSANJE S MUDENDA – ZAMBIA• MARGARET CHIIPANTHENGA- MALAWI• KAROLINE SICHALWE – TANZANIA• NSAJIGWA MWAKYUSA - TANZANIA

PRODUCTION CONSTRAINTS

• Pest and diseases• Poor institutional capacity • Human• Infrastructure

• No sustainable seed system• Land use • Livestock challenge

• Policy issues/ Legislations

Solved by conventional??• Yes to some extent

• Pest and disease

• However• Time consuming

• Use of Biotechnology - molecular tool?• Yes for some constraints i.e.

• Pest and diseases• Seed system• Availability of clean material (indexing and rapid multiplication in tissue

culture

CASSAVA GROWERS• Small scale farmers• >80%

END MARKET• The product• Food

• Difference between urban and market?• Yes

• Urban• Flesh cassava• Fried cassava

• Rural• Fresh cassava• Flour to make Ugali/Nsima

• Potential industrial use?• Starch extraction industry• Bakery Products• Beer making

OPPORTUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH?

Opportunity? Yes

Steps towards sustainable economic growth Production – Disease Resistant Varieties/ Early Bulking Varieties etc. Capacity Building - Human/ Institutional Sustainable Seed System Development Storage / Post Harvest Technologies. Demand Creation Activities. Processing – Public Private Partnerships/ Improve financial Services. Policy /Biotechnology Statutory Instruments/ Human Animal Conflict Resolution.

Who to be involved? Public-Private Partnership Researchers Extension Farmers Investors (commercial, industries) Policy makers NGOs Agro-dealers

APPLICABLE CASSAVA VALUE ADDITION OPPORTUNITIES?

• Opportunities • Ethanol• Starch• Beer