Nigeria Is The Biggest Cassava Producer In The World. Why Isn’t It Cashing In On The Global Market?

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Nigeria grows 63 million metric tons of cassava (also known as yuca or manioc) every year, but most of the country's supply is eaten locally as fufu or garri. Experts say Nigeria could be missing out on billions in exports of lucrative cassava products like bubble tea pearls, starch, or ethanol. Challenges along the country's entire supply chain have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in cassava spoilage. But one entrepreneur, Yemisi Iranloye, thinks she has the solution. She's introduced higher-yielding seed varieties and moved processing plants closer to farms. Now, her farmers earn four times more for their product, and her cassava starch and sorbitol have landed her clients like Nestle and Unilever. Could Yemisi's model be the way for Nigeria to feed itself and cash in on exports?
0:00 Intro
1:48 History of cassava
2:58 Growing issues
5:42: How garri and fufu are made
6:54 Transportation issues
7:36 How cassava is processed
10:06 Global demand is so high for cassava
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Nigeria Is The World's Biggest Cassava Producer. So Why Doesn't It Make Money Off Exports?

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@allseeingeye7095 Год назад

Her paying the farmers directly instead of through middlemen was very smart. Its important these farmers actually get the profits from their labor instead of having it swallowed up and letting their business stagnate.

@blablup1214 Год назад

But I can imagine it goes like this in the future Some farms are growing with this profit. Get bigger and bigger and need more helping workers. The owner can stop working on the field and just do the managing. The farmers that work on the fields will be poolry paid There will be a new video about those worker earning no money with the product that is exported for a big amount of money 🤣

@allseeingeye7095 Год назад

@@blablup1214 Here's hoping for the best. Middlemen aren't inherently bad and do become necessary with growth But at the same time, there is tendency towards parasitism. As business starts hiring in between people more for the sake of soaking up than actually doing anything.

@arthas640 Год назад

seems like nigeria is facing the same issue as many in India with their lackluster infrastructure and crappy bureaucracy

@Centrioless Год назад

@@blablup1214 thats like saying every employer is a middleman 🤦‍♂️

@Centrioless Год назад

Yea as someone who own an oil palm plantation, the reason why our industry is thriving is because the industry really try to minimize the involvement of middleman. The milling plant will survey the farmers directly and prevent the middlemen to supply the fruit bunch

@Oluwaseun_Olusanjo Год назад

As a Nigerian 🇳🇬 I can tell you Garri is a lifesaver

@publik3n3me Год назад

I don't think it is a Saver anymore. It is becoming very expensive.

@PeterPerez. Год назад

@@publik3n3me I agree

@juniorbeckham2928 Год назад

As a Cameroonian, I agree asf

@ezidimmakenneth7927 Год назад

So this is what you came here to comment? They’re saying we’re not cashing in on the opportunities cassava can bring in terms of forex earnings.😂

@juniorbeckham2928 Год назад

@@ezidimmakenneth7927 Lmao she's just joking I think, but ya seriously y'all need to start cashing in, it's crazy that Thailand made a billion dollars off cassava but they produce less than half of what's produced in Nigeria, crazy shitt

@h_maina Год назад

Kudos to her for changing the lives of those farmers for the better. We need more people like her.

@MINIMAN10000 Год назад

She comes across as very entrepreneurial

@NoNORADon911 Год назад

Less phone scams more of this.

@hypothalapotamus5293 Год назад

Roots from South America are super useful for increasing food availability, but it must be done with care. Google the Irish potato famine.

@humanityfriend3869 Год назад

I hope it remain in Nigeria, because foreign demand will increase price, and people will be hungry... Never sell it to Nestle... Swiss firm. They only want to use Africa.

@TheRealCartman1 Год назад

Let's not forget to thank the wonderful Europeans for introducing this plant to Africa.

@mcmaine Год назад

As a cameroonian🇨🇲 i can tell you Garri should be added in the first Aid box

@ovieiffie7800 Год назад

Bro 😂😂😂😂

@agboolamatthew Год назад

😂😂😂

@JustMe-xv8ne Год назад

😂😂😂

@drpankajakshan8204 Год назад

Why nobody wants to visit kneegrow lands? Why tourists hate these places?

@dearruks3379 Год назад

😂😂😂

@andrec7440 Год назад

So many wealthy Nigerians at home and abroad must invest in these factories. Come on... Great for her and her team.

@codeosagie Год назад

Good point, but the foolish people won't invest in such factories, they will call it a scam.

@Anedoje Год назад

I would invest in it but can we stop declaring what other people should do with their money, beyond for example pushing people to buy products made in the nation we cannot force people to invest in a business they do not want to, I believe Agric is Nigerias future same with mining but I would not force people to go into it especially not Nigerians because many only care about money if it does not make money they will abandon it or only half arse it

@livingfinance Год назад

That’s what venture capitalist firms are for.

@silvermorona Год назад

Actually, there are people who want to invest in these types of things. It's just that there are a lot of factors that come in the way of that happening. For example, starting a business in nigeria can be expensive and very unpredictable. Especially when it comes to currency value and taxes. If you were to export these cassava tubers, you would first of all have to deal with a lot of customs, then road issues, security issues, etc.

@kendallkendall825 Год назад

Research Islam it's a beautiful religion.

@nelsonwelser116 Год назад

In Uganda, we have a valiant of cassava that has no poison in it. We eat it raw and it's sweet, we cook it directly without fermentation, It's very high in starch and once cooked its white and can last forever when dried. We cut it and dry it directly from the ground.

@sixtusonyedibe1619 Год назад

Wow! That's nice

@oltonrenwick9175 Год назад

What is the name of this cassava variety ?

@lennyk70 Год назад

same non poisonous availble in the caribbean

@ted9921 Год назад

Rightfully said

@arsHIT_23_08_1 Год назад

Same here in INDIA 🇮🇳

@akinyemihiro5250 Год назад

As a agriculture graduate i know IITA has added a very good impact in both supply chain and processing especially in ogun,ondo and oyo state. The only issue why cassava has not met the international market is because of food safety regulations

@drewh3224 Год назад

So why couldn't cassava in Nigeria meet the regulation?

@publik3n3me Год назад

@Drew H Food Safety Regulation (food poison): what an expression to fool people! How many Nigerians die per year, due to Cassava eating??

@johnsontolulope4150 Год назад

@@drewh3224 very good question. Some should answer

@lanremodele180 Год назад

@akinyemihiro5250 please are you into farming. if you are what products are you into. i just want to know because i am very curious about agriculture in Nigeria

@codeosagie Год назад

Don't fool yourself, in the video, they just highlight the big factor, yet you miss it. Government not giving good road and helping farmers out in transport is 90% problem to our farmers.

@WastedSunRise Год назад

We use cassava in cooking for my daughter who can't have gluten, wheat, rice or oats. It's been a life saver for us.

@channelshalom8914 7 месяцев назад

Have you try Teff flour it is gluten free

@FERESE 4 месяца назад

It is "flour", avoid it if you have gluten sensitivity.

@somyakumar3211 2 месяца назад

weakling

@libyatube2651 Год назад

Nigeria will become great country one day, I feel it in my bones when I sow this lady

@ivanlowjones Год назад

Don't hold your breath.

@Green.P3 Год назад

It was a great country many many years ago but yea it’ll rise back up

@patrickrealestate-8193 Год назад

It will

@ivanlowjones Год назад

@@patrickrealestate-8193 Hopefully, the Nigerian princes will sort out their tax situations and stop asking me for my financial assistance through email.

@patrickrealestate-8193 Год назад

@@ivanlowjones be kind and send them the little savings you have.

@outtersteller Год назад

Most of us don’t even know that cassava has replaced the flour in so many product like corn flakes other cereal products. It’s an amazing crop.

@arthas640 Год назад

That must be a regional thing. The big brands like Kellogg's Frosted Flakes Kelloggs Corn Flakes, and General Mills Country Corn Flakes, as well as some less well known brands like Natures Path all use primarily corn since corn is dirt cheap and more widely available. In many countries they can also run into legal issues with selling something under a misleading label, like calling something a "corn flake" while being primarily made from something else; in many countries for example you cant call something "chocolate" if it's not mostly made from cacao and they have to call it something like "chocolate flavored" or "chocolate candy" rather than just "chocolate".

@chelseaopoku4203 Год назад

As a Ghanaian, cassava is also a staple food in Ghana as well. We also make fufu and gari with cassava as well, although we often add things like plantains to it as well.

@azalor3223 Год назад

As a Nigerian, this a lot of new information to take in. Thank you for this documentary 🫡

@StefandeJong1 Год назад

Was very excited to hear launched her company to preserve Cassava - until Nestlé was mentioned and and almost vomited.

@gtageri100 Год назад

They’ll do everything in their power to keep those wages at $10/day or knock it even lower

@rawbacon Год назад

That's because you're brainwashed.

@ivanlowjones Год назад

You probably need to have your gastrointestinal system if the mere mention of Nestle makes you vomit.

@LiveHealthywithJudith Год назад

😂😂😂

@JohnDoe-qz1ql Год назад

@@ivanlowjones And you should inform yourself in the repulsive actions taken by the Nestle Corp.

@sulaak Год назад

Nigeria's greatest problem is inefficient infrastructure, such as skilled managers, poor electricity, and road and rail infrastructures. Nigeria has failed to benefit from its oil, gas, agriculture and cheap labour due to the centralised government and poor infrastructure. Democracy has been a disaster that produced rent-seeking politicians interested in quick wins rather than long-term economic solutions.

@gladysmaya2352 Год назад

If Nigeria keep making excuses about their leaders, they ain't going no where. Some people have decided to advance regardless and it's paying off.

@sean-et4wr Год назад

That’s a lie bro, the infrastructure is way better than the one in your country, and that’s a fact.

@livingfinance Год назад

True but at some point leadership needs to change.

@Anedoje Год назад

Road and rail have been fixed and are not even as bad as people claim, electricity is an extra cost but factories can run on solar, skilled managers is a people problem not government Casavva and many other things were for a long time part of government policy to promote more and fund its the people that were not interested or stole money from these programs after wining grants, its high time we stop blaming everything in government if we the people wanted a secure nation we would have made it secure same with most of our other problems

@gladysmaya2352 Год назад

@@livingfinance if it's not changing,then we need to change and ignore excuses.Some wise folks are learning to dump excuses and have found a way to forge ahead...we need to emulate such individuals...

@samuelmehinsan_ Год назад

Finally! A Nigerian sector on Insider

@felypeforte Год назад

In Northeastern Brazil is has been a staple for milenia. Here we have several processing houses, which are not industrial, but community based. You can rent the houses by giving a small part of the products to the owner. It is a good exchange for both parts. Here we make two products, the same garri flour here we call cassava flour, but we don’t soak it in water, we use it as farofa, qhich looks like those bread crumbs that Americans use, but instead we use the cassava flour. Another product is Tapioca flour made from the starches, which we use to make tapioca crepes (that is what we call tapioca). It is an amazing and versatile product.

@papi-eron4995 Год назад

There is a cassava snack Called tapioca. It’s eaten with coconut 🥥. I miss it 😢😂❤

@laweya Год назад

Vamos saudar a mandioca!

@saheedaileru6850 Год назад

So do you make eba out of the garri too?

@etf42 10 месяцев назад

pao de queijo

@Fourtune1 Год назад

Nice news to hear about their country developing. The news always picks the worst stories.

@GhostieToasterStrudel Год назад

Probably cause they feel like hysteria makes people watch more, one of the main reasons I don’t watch news channels anymore, but I agree it’s nice to hear positive stories about Africa for once.

@gemelwalters2942 Год назад

worse or relevant? Cherry picking what to report helps no one. Corruption is a big part of the infrastructure issue so yes that ends up in the news often because most of the countries problems are hampered by that very thing.

@gemelwalters2942 Год назад

Happy to see these women thinking ahead and adapting, I hope their success continues. It seems a lot of the infrastructure in the region is dependent on government assistance but this is so slow

@Ekow_TheStoryTeller Год назад

Cassava has saved many lives in Africa. It is our staple and we must benefit from it’s economic potential. Good work Yemisi

@TheRealCartman1 Год назад

Remember to thank the wonderful Europeans that introduced cassava to Africa.

@bmandrakeeee8378 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRealCartman1lol, way better to thank the indigenous people of America, who teached the world how to harvest cassava and also corn, squash, potatoes and tomatoes. europeans would still be eating basically sheep and mud if not for the help of the people that they massacred

@remilenoir1271 8 месяцев назад

@bmandrakeeee8378 You're so ignorant. It's almost comical. The truth is that Cassava only began to be cultivated and harvested by Europeans settlers. Before that, the native gathered it and didn't use to eat nearly as much of it as they began to after the Portuguese took to harvesting it. Also, if europeans only ate sheep and mud before they started massacring and colonising, as you say, how do you explain the fact that they conquered so easily the rest of the world that was so much more superior to them ?

@ayyodele 7 месяцев назад

Thank you Europeans, as we were feeding off grass and tree barks before you came to plunder our continent. @@TheRealCartman1

@chidianyanwu8731 7 месяцев назад

@@TheRealCartman1😂😂😂 which Europeans ? Cassava is native to the soil and you can see that .

@hanadsayid7081 Год назад

When I watch this type of documentaries. I quickly understand that the World Food Program is not for poverty eradication.

@augustoortiz3615 Год назад

Just a correction: not all cassava are poisonous or contain cyanide. The strands that do contain cyanide can be translated to "angry cassava" in portuguese and are usually not usually accessible to regular customers, only to industrial customers.

@JVandthebrotherhood 10 месяцев назад

All cassava are poisonous. The mandioca brava (angry cassava) is just edible after processed into flour, but the mandioca mansa (calm cassava) can be eaten after boiled and cooked. But none can be eaten raw

@olaideowolabi3069 Год назад

Our inefficiency as a nation is obvious all over the place. If Thailand that produces less roots can make such $ amount from export then we are definitely playing.

@livingfinance Год назад

A lot of educated Nigerians and west Africans. The issue is practical education to solve societal problems. Too many Nigerians and west Africans seek higher education for prestige instead of actually solve the countries problem. What’s the point of having a high output of professionals if they are not actually practicing meaningful problem solving.

@YouYou-sm8tf Год назад

@@livingfinanceI agree. Each african country need to analyze what are the nation’s first need and how to solve it. And support educated africans to get funding, ressources to create, manage and fructify all the benefits. Helping africans who can make the change is important.

@arthas640 Год назад

People often dont realize just how industrialized Thailand is. They're not the best in the world in terms of efficency but they're still great, to the point that many countries send produce to Thailand to be processed or canned and then resell it. Pears for example are grown in the US during their summer and then in South America during their summer, and they both send pears to Thailand to be canned which is why you might see American pears imported from Thailand. They're also really big into shipping and exporting as well with Bangkok being a huge economic hub. That all means they can take cassava, which is actually a pretty cheap agricultural product, and process it into more useful goods and sell it on for more money then straight cassava.

@mamotalemankoe3775 Год назад

@@livingfinanceThe issue is they run away to wealthy western countries with their degrees and leave the poor uneducated people to fix things. They should stay and help but they prefer to buy a good life instead of make one at home.

@livingfinance Год назад

@@mamotalemankoe3775 Two fold although what you said is true. The environment for excellence is mediocre in many west Africans, the more positive impact you want to have the more hurdles you have.

@nerdishshonrenee1600 7 месяцев назад

So awesome, she made a huge difference, bless her journey with only good things!

@JJABRAHAM69 Год назад

Also,Sorghum is a drought resistant crop grown in Africa. I designed small steam turbine power plants for Rwandan villages that ran on Sorghum ethanol. One worker could harvest 2 acres per day of sorghum,which is very similar to sugar cane. But can grow upside down on concrete practically.

@stellafosua5578 11 месяцев назад

Well done, God Bless you🙏

@estebancorral5151 10 месяцев назад

You should have designed a small turbine powered by biomethane.

@mr.ghidorah4202 Год назад

Love watching success stories like these! These women shows how it's done! We have a similar problem in our area where we grow sugar cane. Processing the crops are inefficient because we have so many middle men like paying for harvesters, renting trucks to bring it to a plant far away. If I have money, I would build a processing plant in the area.

@Leela_ya_Maaya Год назад

From where ?

@gloryamadigwe900 9 месяцев назад

Which area is that's

@samijay Год назад

Gaari saving us since the 1700

@AKASANJEEWA Год назад

In Sri Lanka we have only three ways to cook cassava. Steam, cook with coconut milk or frying as chips. It's interesting to see other ways here ❤❤❤

@fistandpen2505 10 месяцев назад

Hmm when you people discover garri your brain will burst

@striker7469 Год назад

Nigeria government must invest in infrastructure and security to grow their economy output.

@gennaterra Год назад

corruption is still a huge problem in Africa... unfortunately

@kabzaify Год назад

@@gennaterra Corruption is a problem everywhere, is about managing it. And not all Africa countries are dealing with same level of corruption.

@jantschierschky3461 Год назад

@kabzaify very true, but Nigerian government....

@kendallkendall825 Год назад

Research Islam it's a beautiful religion.

@chibuezenjoku6039 Год назад

This is one of the reasons we need to move from consumption to production. We can do this!

@caiodollis6159 Год назад

Cassava is indigenous to Brazil, and in small cities most people have cassava planted on their backyard. In all supermarket there's fresh cassava, cassava starch and cassava flour. It's turned into millenar recipes such as tapioca (starch), tucupi (it's fermented juice) etc. The flour is delicious and it's often eaten with rice, beans and meat, and it was a staple food for the portuguese who explored the interior of the country and traveled thousands of kilometers since the 16th century. The cassava is often eaten also at lunch, as I'm doing now.

@mpendakiswahili3053 Год назад

Hahaha

@MichaelJerry_ Год назад

What’s your point?

@caiodollis6159 Год назад

@@MichaelJerry_ no point, just contributing

@etf42 10 месяцев назад

feijoada with farofa

@polartanaka3627 9 месяцев назад

@@MichaelJerry_ that cassava is indigenous to Brazil😄

@danielschick7554 11 месяцев назад

Leave it to Business Insider to suggest that a staple that these people need to live should be exported for profit.

@karabokhwiane7593 Месяц назад

💯

@grrr2007 Год назад

I did a research on vitamin A cassava in 2016-2018. Cassava is gold in Nigeria, everybody wants to partner with IITA because there is a lot of thorough breeding research on cassava. Our government need to do more in terms of export and to first get it right we need to move from unncessaeery 'wild elephant' project and start basic things such as building good roads in the rural areas and access to inputs for farmers.

@arthas640 Год назад

what's a "wild elephant project"?

@grrr2007 Год назад

@@arthas640 that's a typo. I mean a white elephant project

@arthas640 Год назад

@@grrr2007 now i feel dumb for not realizing that. I googled "wild elephant project" and scrolled through a bunch of elephant rescue and elephant sanctuary pages without making the connection and assumed it was some idiom I wasnt familiar with.

@MalluStyleMultiMedia Год назад

I’m from Kerala, India and cassava is one of our favorites

@mugosteve Год назад

Awesome content. In Kenya our Cassava industry is practically non existent. The little I see is sold as fried snacks in the streets. I didn't know the crop had that many uses.

@florenceodegua3225 Год назад

Hopefully, we can push our products to Kenya. Thanks for the insight

@divayanche1 Год назад

Wow...i know the owner, grew up with her and she has blossomed so well. Kudos 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@zuzoon437 Год назад

Lets goooo africa! Praying for your rise! Much love from 🇺🇸

@stevenkidd6761 Год назад

The southwestern USA farmers need to replace their thirsty crops like lettuce with Cassava. Pulling water from CO river to farm plants that dont belong in an arid/semi-arid landscape is a terrible waste of resources. (This should be applied to California Almond farmers as well)

@tuckerbugeater Год назад

@jaimeayala4231 Год назад

The problem is the weather. Casava is very adaptable to soil and rain conditions. However, it is very picky regarding temperature. It needs the constant warmth that only tropical regions can provide.

@arthas640 Год назад

Sadly it will likely never happen until well after the breaking point. California wields tons of power and the Democrats there rely on support from big businesses for their funding as well as many working class people, especially latinos, both of whom are tied in heavy with agriculture and almonds alone account for $4.5bil. The wealthy in California also love all their locally produced fruit and veg and they need their perfectly manicured lawns and golf courses. If they start cutting water usage and if the GOP capitalizes on the inevitable criticism then they could flip California which would be devastating to the Democratic party both at the state and federal levels while the economic downturn would harm many within the state and have a ripple effect across the country since Californian agriculture is estimated to generate around $100bil in related industries. California is also already facing problems as more and more companies are looking to relocate due to sky high taxes, sky high costs of living, and a lot of bureaucracy. This all means it's in the rulers best interests to just stay the current course until things go off the rails.

@kendallkendall825 Год назад

Research islam it's a beutiful religion.

@mehmoodkhankhattak Год назад

I never leaves the country because it is mostly consumed there Nigeria. Now when Nestle and other multinational enters this market. Their own product will be sold to them back on high prices.

@arthas640 Год назад

Nestle wont get involved, at least in Nigeria, since the infrastructure is so poor and since things are so decentralized. They like large scale plantations with easy access from the farms to the processing plants to the ports and ideally tons of land they can easily buy. In Nigeria they'll need to buy tons of tiny farms, rebuild roads, and set up their own processing plants which is a ton of work which means low returns on investment. The conflict in the country also makes it more unattractive to foreign business. Corn and soy in the US, Canada, and Brazil are more attractive to big agribusinesses

@mehmoodkhankhattak Год назад

@@arthas640 they will buy from you,process it and sell it to you on high prices.

@kendallkendall825 Год назад

Research Islam it's a beutiful religion.

@chubiforever1 7 месяцев назад

@@mehmoodkhankhattak Think he/she missed that part

@psalms1397 Год назад

This is what happens when we have competent people at the top! the result is a growing encomy. Thank you for all your efforts Yemisi

@almalyncabansag4442 Год назад

I just wanted to say that the young little leaves of casava in the center of it's trunk is edible in our province in the Philippines. We boil the small young leaves then remove the moisture by squeezing it. After that it can be dry or cooked directly with coconut milk untill it turned a Little bit oily. It is so delicious 😋

@AnthonyAlaribe Год назад

It’s also eaten in Rwanda. I was surprised the first time I visited Rwanda as a Nigerian, since we grow so much cassava but always discard the leaves

@Ten_dai Год назад

When my mum was growing up in Ghana they used to add it to cocoyam leaves for kontomire/palaver sauce

@nunyabiznes33 Год назад

@@AnthonyAlaribe could it be the variety they grow in Rwanda is less bitter than what's normally grown in Nigeria?

@jaimeayala4231 Год назад

There's also another reason the leaves are boiled. They contain cyanide, boiling evaporates and destroys most of it. After that you are getting a product highly rich in protein, sometimes more than 10 times the content of the root itself.

@TheREALCUPCAKE03 Год назад

Also in FIJI they boil then coconut milk is added.🥰😋

@AlexB-nw7jt Год назад

Casava rocks, I wish it was more widely available

@arthas640 Год назад

in the west you can often find it in Asian and Latino stores since it's popular in both SE Asia (especially Thailand and Cambodia) as well as across Latin America.

@kendallkendall825 Год назад

Research Islam it's a beautiful religion.

@lombardo141 Год назад

As a Nigerian I took Cassava for granted. I did not know. 😮

@Habib_Osman 11 месяцев назад

Read the wikipedia. Cassava contains Very few nutrients.. mostly starch, which is transformed by our bodies into sugar. So.. in other words- cassava is basically pure sugar. Not so superfood at all! Don't believe me, read the wikipedia.

@KhaiFirst Год назад

we ate this during ww2 in malaysia but still been consume in the village.

@oceejekwam6829 Год назад

Madam Yemisi, well done 👏

@monekekosisochukwu6269 Год назад

Honestly I love garri and fufu. But watching this I'm really pained. I have always been pained that food waste is one of our major challenges, but I never really saw it in cassava. This is a market that needs to be tapped into.

@aadipdip1326 Год назад

As indonesian, i love cassava soo much. We grill it and eat it like sweet potato, fried it like potato chips, the flour become traditional cake or tapioca boba (or as a glue), we fermented it to become "tape" and eat it at it is, or grill it to become "colenak".

@joeahega 11 месяцев назад

God bless Mama Yemisi,, Amen

@akinyemioluwapelumi28 10 месяцев назад

What an intelligent woman👏🏿👏🏿

@beatpirate8 Год назад

I respect these growers . What a journey this root has to go through to be eaten. What a smart woman for helping her own country folk earn more.

@kozmoflores Год назад

that’s phenomenal love the power of women Entrepreneurs & best of luck to nigeria 🇳🇬 with the cassava plant 🪴

@meerarathode6096 Год назад

I'm from India, and i can tell for sure, Casava is so damn easy to grow. Beans and Casava are the easiest for anyone. Just pour water. Done.

@peterporkeresq.2817 4 месяца назад

You have to apply pesticides to beans ...

@estebancorral5151 Месяц назад

@@peterporkeresq.2817the extracted poison from the cassava is a pesticide.

@michelhv Год назад

2:49 African yams are NOT sweet potatoes, they are a completely different root vegetable.

@jaimeayala4231 Год назад

Yeah, I noticed that. In many parts of USA sweet potatoes are wrongly named yams. Usually, the name is reserved for the bigger varieties. Still, different plant families.

@antnam4406 Год назад

Hope to go back to this, God willing. Before Covid hit, I was actually thinking of doing some cassava farming, but life happened and I focussed on the stock market. People are leaving millions of $ on the table.

@sujalchaudhari4494 Год назад

She is paying directly to farmers love it..

@devinanderson1792 Год назад

Yemisi tried something different. She put a factory NEAR the farm 😮

@lppl7780 Год назад

Nigeria had a large agricultural export economy, but it is a classic example of dutch disease. It's oil sector though declining due to social issues, makes many other exports uncompetitive. The oil revenue had, for a while, made it cheaper to buy agricultural commodities on the international market. The war in Ukraine dislocated that market as well. The is a huge need within its domestic market to produce agricultural products as it is a net importer of foodstuffs.

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

I don't think so. for that to have happened, a large portion of the population (all of whom need to eat) would have needed to benefit from the oil profits, which has absolutely not been the case in nigeria. nigerian oil is exploited by foreign companies without very much local employment, and they get by without paying very much to the nigerian government, with much of the money going to corrupt rich people. all that does not provide normal or poor nigerians with alternatives to local food production. what the oil industry has done in nigeria is extremely heavy pollution, but that has more so destroyed local fisheries mostly in the niger delta (where nigeria's oil is concentrated), and probably also on the coast. the oil also was a key factor in the nigerian civil war over the biafra region containing the oil, which certainly did much lasting harm to nigeria.

@lppl7780 Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek it has to do with the exchange rate. Due to the FoEx associated with oil exports, it keeps the currency higher than it otherwise would be and undermines the competitiveness of other exports. The points about the system and who benefits from it are common, but Nigeria has it the worst. 👍

@andersonojoshimite6047 Год назад

Net importer of foodstuffs? What a lie!

@mirleydamazio628 Год назад

No Brasil, temos tantos derivados e pratos feitos com mandioca, que não consigo enumerar. Além de alimentar humanos, serve também como alimento para animais. É uma dádiva de Deus !

@seadkolasinac7220 Год назад

deus não existe

@mirleydamazio628 Год назад

@@seadkolasinac7220 Se até você existe, imagina se Deus não? É o barro duvidando do ceramista!

@jmg10v49 Год назад

tem que ser torcedor do Arsenal para dizer isso.🤦‍♂️

@JVandthebrotherhood 10 месяцев назад

@@mirleydamazio628ninguém aqui é de barro, irmão. Duvidar e questionar religiões é necessário

@mirleydamazio628 10 месяцев назад

@@JVandthebrotherhood Você não entendeu a expressão" Barro falando do ceramista". Não discuto a existência de Deus por convicção e fé e não discuto religião por respeito à todas! Quem quiser discutir, tem seu direito, só que terá que ser com outra pessoa. Não deixarei de falar" Graças à Deus" pelo fato de alguns não acreditarem. E se você souber quais são os elementos químicos presentes no corpo humano, saberá que todos estão presentes na terra.

@raphraph3545 11 месяцев назад

More deep pocket Nigerians need to replicate and even scale up what this lady has achieved with her cassava revolution.

@I___Am Год назад

Shredd cassava with grater, mix it with a little salt then steam it for ±15 - 40 minutes(the texture change the longer you steam it). After cooked, you can eat it/mix it with palm sugar(without mixing it with water), a delicious snack.

@vamoneygroup Год назад

Garri

@tenderlyauguste3883 Год назад

Wow...kudos to both ladies..they are pioneering the industry in Nigeria..really informative and well structured documentary...

@therahulrs Год назад

Every time I hear the word superfood I roll my eyes --- at this point everything is a superfood

@richevericheve5156 Год назад

great woman keep going nigeria needs more people like this and all the workers

@kabzaify Год назад

For the record, cassava or yam is not main food across the continent. Certainly not Southern Africa.

@beatpirate8 Год назад

I had a beef stew w fufu and it was so delicious I ate two bowls . It’s like mashed potatoes but stickier like a creamier texture. So deliscious. I’m so impressed with this root and I didn’t know it is gluten free and good for you. The processing looks so difficult. I learned so much in this video. I have always wondered how we go tapioca when it’s a root from elsewhere

@marymary4005 Год назад

Proud of this woman

@vinzanity68 Год назад

This lady is a blessing to Africa

@josecarvajal6654 Год назад

Yuca is probably one of my favorite starches out there. Here we made a flat hard pancake called "casave" (that's where the name "cassava" comes from, they confused the name of the dish with the name of the product)

@lesliecas2695 Год назад

Goodness, what backbreaking work.

@naijawindandsolar Год назад

Thank you ma for all you are doing for the country

@scotthughes7440 Год назад

Bless this genius. In Jamaica we love casava bread and call it Bammy. It brings back memories for me.

@rhardee16 Год назад

This. This is how you go about growing an industry, by raising everyone together, not just the bigwigs.

@Ugochukwu123 Год назад

Nigeria really need to step up from only consumption to manufacturing and food processing. We have the resources and all it takes.

@kelechijeremiah4465 Год назад

That's why many people. Want OBI.4 real. Not consumption.

@soberman1520 Год назад

nigeria is not people but you as individual as a subject as a nigerian should do something to change the future supposed you got the capital to do so

@justasimplecountryboy6205 Год назад

We usually farm cassava for pigs. We to eat it but nit much. Cassava has so much uses for us. We use the roots to eat or dry uttar and use it as pig feed, the stem as firewood after drying it and the leaves is also dried up and used as pig feed. It's really has good uses entirely.

@hendral.5636 Год назад

Here in Sarawak, Malaysia, we eat the cassava young leave. We call the plant "empasak".

@eltontinayemoyo Год назад

Thailand eats rice as a staple while Nigeria east cassava as staples.

@amona.8158 Год назад

Thailand produces and consumes rice as a staple, and it exports rice as a staple food worldwide. Nigeria produces and consumes cassava as a staple, and the excess produced goes to waste.

@sulaak Год назад

Rice , cassava and wheat are all staple food source in Nigeria

@olagunjujoseph213 Год назад

Insider Business please do more on Nigeria's agricultural potential

@yemi4171 Год назад

Loved watching every single moment

@yuddytuddy7990 7 месяцев назад

That is one-real-super-wonder-woman… great job…

@friaspr Год назад

Cassava is delicious. We eat it a lot in Puerto Rico and the Domican Republic.

@logwell1 Год назад

In Brazil, we consume a lot of cassava too! In my region, we call it mandioca. Its a delicious side dish. You can cut in large pieces and cook it, fry it and make stews. i really recomend it, good stuff. Didnt know about its consume by our africans friend

@trenomas1 Год назад

This is collective action done right.

@clarenceonyekwere5428 Год назад

Thanks for the coverage

@KanishQQuotes 11 месяцев назад

There's a reason why dedicated agricultural research needs to be conducted at university level

@douuglas2007 Год назад

In brazil there's 3 different names for the cassava (Mandioca, Aipim and Macaxeira) Cassava is my favorite carboidrate ever, it taste much better that potato, you can make delicious dishes using cavassa, it can be cooked in water and salt, fried, you can make a delicious cake, the Cassava can be processed into Farinha, Polvilho Doce, Polvilho Azedo, Tapioca... Then you can make the best breakfast in the world called Pão De Queijo 😂😂.

@jessalbertine Год назад

I hope to see more women like this in charge of things! Thanks for the great video.

@ashishkr.4075 Год назад

Yes, I actually needed the English tranlation of her speaking English

@tunxlaw Год назад

When Tinubu was talking of cassava and corn, you people were laughing.

@Khalifah_kby Год назад

He’s smart

@jaybee4577 Год назад

Exactly, i shake my head when I see Nigerians laughing and making corn jokes. I have even seen recent RU-vid videos talk about the value chains of corn 🌽. We need to start adding value to our product for exportation.

@techtactics788 Год назад

So feed the youth cassava and corn. His son dines on oyster and lives in a £10 million plus property 😅

@tunxlaw Год назад

@@techtactics788 Yes, Cassava and corn would bring in much needed forex.

@techtactics788 Год назад

@@tunxlaw his context wasn't about forex, don't be slow please. He wants other people's kids to be fed that while they tackle the insecurity corrupt politicians and the like created.

@catatanpribadi0132 11 месяцев назад

saya sangat salut dengan mereka yang membangun pabrik pengolahan singkong tersebut dekat dengan petani.

@chineyennamani6253 8 месяцев назад

Kudos to this woman. More grace to your elbow Ma

@fftb8442 Год назад

Protect this woman! 🙌

@jamesgordon364 Год назад

Might be a blessing that they are not exporting more with world trade rules, quinoa used to be the main staple of Bolivia. Once a nation has put a commodity on the international market they aren't allowed to remove it.also Nestlé uses child slave labour and takes spring water from locals.

@livingfinance Год назад

Precisely it’s the legacy that colonialism has left subsaharan Africa with this cash crop mentality. The constant need to export rather than developing value locally and then focus on exporting surplus. Hope it changes within my lifetime. But continental trade within Africa is extremely lacklustre,

@temitopeomolayo6278 Год назад

Love this So happy to see advancement in the industry and the further awareness this video would create Thanks Business Insider

@stevencooper4422 Год назад

Kasava is good as fufu with peanut soup 😋

@prospektarty1513 Год назад

God bless Yemisi. Nigerian women are first class on the continent.

@icetrip2417 Год назад

God Bless this woman ❤

@itanyichiebuka Год назад

Nigeria has so much potential it's crazy

@jennifernangboa 9 месяцев назад

Not only Nigeria the whole of Africa does

@itanyichiebuka 9 месяцев назад

@@jennifernangboa 100%

@metalextras Год назад

Nigerian farmer's problem is not about factories, are more about how to convert cassava into money by themselves. The world's #1 technology to cultivate and to converts Cassava into money is Indonesia, The whole part of cassava plant can be processed by home industry into tasty vegetable, edible paper, poultry feeds, rice-flakes, chips, cakes, biscuit, sugar flakes, sweeten dessert, ice cream, liquor, fishing baits, Ethanol and hand sanitizer even in remote villages.

@reddit-it3414 7 месяцев назад

“Some have died. Bless their memory.” 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@wellsambrose1878 Год назад

This is what Peter obi is talking about, with the huge land that we have, just imagine the potential,see who ever becomes president may 29th needs too start work,🇳🇬🇳🇬💪

@hlengiwemasondo2858 Год назад

Wondering what was eaten in Nigeria before the 1600s when cassava was introduced .

@agett12 Год назад

Indigenous Yams and rice

@Amazila Год назад

You still believe Mungo Park discovered your backyard, don't you?

@hlengiwemasondo2858 Год назад

@@Amazila this was a sarcastic question.

@Amazila Год назад

@@agett12 rice is not natively grown in my region. Yams, yes; but fufu and garri is the main food. Do not be fooled; Africa is not a village. It is a continent of diverse climate and topography. South America continent was once joined to the African continent. I hope you get the picture

@jaimeayala4231 Год назад

@@Amazila African rice (Oryza glaberrima) is native of that continent. At least in Western Africa. The popularity has decreased with the introduction of Asian rice and other starch sources.