FG Begins Cassava Production Training for 1,000, Ex-militants in 2022
FG Begins Cassava Production Training for 1,000, Ex-militants in 2022
The Project Management Consultant for the 60-daily-metric-ton Bayelsa Cassava Processing Factory, Mr Adebowale Ayoade, has said about 1000 ex-agitators and delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Programme will begin training at the facility in the first quarter of 2022.
Ayoade, however, said the training was subject to the approval of PAP’s leadership.
He described the facility as the biggest industrial starch plant in Nigeria and the second largest in Sub-Saharan Africa, saying delegates would receive theoretical and practical training on cassava cultivation, starch processing and management.
The project manager and the Interim Administrator, PAP, Col. Miland Dixon Dikio (retd), who was represented by his Special Assistant on Projects, Godwin Ekpo, recently inspected the multi-billion-naira factory located at Ebedebiri, Sagabama, Bayelsa State.
Ayoade while speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday, explained that after the training, the ex-agitators would become out-growers of cassava stems to feed the factory.
He said the facility would buy all the cassava from the farms to be established by trained delegates, adding that the training would be handled by resource persons certified by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
FG Begins Cassava Production Training for 1,000, Ex-militants in 2022
Cassava farming is one of the easiest things a farmer can do since it only involves the burying of the stems in the soil, whether you make ridges or not and in less than 6 months, you are already harvesting. Cassava as a major food item in Nigeria has some health benefits too.
