The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and Farm Concern International have launched a three-year program to promote cassava that will help 30,000 small scale farmers in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
The project, Cassava Village Processing Project (CVPP), hopes to help increase cassava for food and industrial use by processing it at a village level. CVPP aims to increase incomes for the farmers as one-fourth to one-half of the produce will go toward industrial use with the remaining produce going for home production.
Communities will set up 120 village processing units that will train farmers to become cassava producers on a commercial scale. AGRA has already partnered with Equity Bank in Kenya, Standard Bank in Tanzania and Uganda, and National Micro-finance Bank in Tanzania to help small holder farmers and agribusinesses accrue lines of credit.
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