The Honourable Minister of Innovation, Science and Expertise, Chief Uche Nnaji has stated Nigeria may earn a lot cash and do so much with cassava, contemplating the varied main merchandise derivable from the tuber.
He famous that Nigeria is the biggest producer of cassava on the earth with an annual manufacturing of about 34 million tons, stressing that the manufacturing would enhance with the introduction of improved cum pest resistant varieties.
The Minister stated this, weekend, throughout facility tour of Federal Institute of Industrial Analysis Oshodi, FIIRO, Lagos.
Nnaji inspected varied sections of the company, together with the cassava processing strains that churn out many main merchandise, paper manufacturing unit utilizing Biowastes as a substitute of wooden thereby serving to within the battle in opposition to deforestation, steel fabrication centre with varied ranges of lathe machines.
He additionally inspected bottled palm wine with shelf lifetime of about six months.
The Minister referred to as on entrepreneurs and producers to look inward and entry wanted uncooked supplies, equipment and spare components from FIIRO and different companies of the Ministry.
He stated a part of his plan for commercialisation of Analysis and Improvement outcomes was to construct pilot crops for a few of the merchandise to encourage and entice traders.
Earlier in her handle, the DG, Dr. (Mrs) Jummai Adamu chronicled the historical past, applications and tasks of the institute by a slide present.
The slide present displayed some merchandise of the institute, together with agro-sack comprised of banana fibre; cosmetics and soaps from Neem (Dogonyaro) leaves, amongst others.
The DG stated the core mandate of FIIRO is to help in accelerating the industrialisation of Nigeria by discovering utilisation for the nation’s uncooked supplies and upgrading of indigenous manufacturing strategies.
