STORAGE METHODS AND SOME USES OF CASSAVA IN NIGERIA

The storage of agricultural raw materials is an essential aspect of food processing that ensures that food remains available even in time of scarcity. The storage methods and some potential uses of cassava, which include its use in the productions of garri, farinha, attieke, cassava bread, chips, cassava powder for increasing the nutritional content of animal feed especially in beef cattle and for increasing the body weight of chicken were discussed. The production of ethanol fuel from cassava, for running automobile engines is also discussed in this paper. All these uses are capable of overturning the fortunes of many unemployed Nigerians to being productive and gainfully employed.