Background: The Cassava Enterprise
Development Project (CEDP) is a $11.7 million, five year partnership
between USAID/Nigeria, the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation,
Bayelsa State Government and the International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture. USAID funding to the project is $2,917,353 while Shell
Petroleum contributes $7.5 million. The aim of the project is to
develop and strengthen the entire cassava value chain so that farmers
and entrepreneurs participate to generate greater incomes. The activity
which is particularly designed to benefit women provides improved
cassava varieties that resist cassava mosaic disease; develops sustainable
cassava processing technologies and identify commercial markets
for value-added products form cassava. The Cassava Enterprise Development
Project has three core components.
Key Components:The Cassava Enterprise Development Project has three
components.
- Reduce the impact of virulent cassava mosaic
disease
Virulent cassava mosaic disease (CMD) is a highly-destructive
disease that originated in East Africa and can totally destroy
the crop and today it poses a serious threat to farmers in the
South East and South South geopolitical zones of Nigeria. CEDP
will stem the disease through the widespread dissemination and
adoption of high-yielding, disease-resistant cassava varieties.
- Increase cassava productivity
There is a wide gap between potential yield (over 40 MT/ha)
and average yields of below 12 MT/ha in the farmers' field.
Low yields are due to poor agronomic practices, low soil fertility,
and poor input delivery mechanisms. CEDP will increase productivity
through the generation, promotion and adoption of demand-driven,
sustainable and competitive cassava production technologies.
- Develop and expand post-harvest processing
and marketing outlets for cassava products
The potential of post-production processing to add value to
cassava and increase incomes is enormous. CEDP will strengthen
small and medium processors and enterprises and facilitate their
access to post harvest processing technologies, credit, information,
and domestic markets. Significant potentials exist in livestock
feed, ethanol, starch and other industries, both small and large
scale.
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Anticipated Results
• Reduced incidence of Cassava Mosaic Disease.
( To release of at least 3 CMD resistant cassava varieties and
300, 000 farmers adopting CMD resistant varieties)
• Increase Productivity of cassava from 9.8 to 24 MT/hectare
( To assist the development 100, 000 hectares of cassava under
Sustainable management)
• Increased value-added cassava products
( To assist the establishment of 1,000 processing enterprises
and generation of 560, 000 MT of value-added cassava products)
• Increased employment in assisted enterprises (Create
3000 new jobs)
• Increased income of assisted clients (Generate $34 million
sales from cassava and improved cassava products from assisted
entrepreneurs)
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