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Production of glucose syrup from high quality cassava flour, Ghana










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    Making high-quality cassava flour 2010
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    Cassava is not fully utilized in Eastern Africa compared to West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana). Cassava is drought tolerant, easy to grow and simple to harvest. All parts of the cassava plant are valuable. Cassava leaves can be used to make soup or as feed for livestock, the stems can be used for planting more cassava, for mushroom production or as firewood, the root can be cooked and eaten fresh or processed into flour. Highquality cassava flour is made within a day of harvesting the root. The manual attached gives steps in processing high quality cassava by small holder farmers.
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    Cassava processing: cassava wet flour 2006
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    Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz) is the third most important source of calories in the tropics, after rice and maize. Millions of people depend on cassava in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is grown by poor farmers, many of them women, often on marginal land. For those people and their families, cassava is vital for both food security and income generation. Cassava is a raw material base for an array of processed products that could effectively increase demand for cassava and contribute to agricultural transformation and economic growth in developing countries. The following technology describes how to obtain cassava flour from cassava tubers.
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    Cassava Flour. Roots and Tubers Processing Toolkit 2007
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