Summary of the workshop
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Fourth Strategic Meeting of The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century, Ibadan, Nigeria, 28-30 Oct 2013
A Cassava–Based Feed System in Africa: Roadmap to a commercial reality
Organizers:
Dr. Claude M. Fauquet Director GCP21 CIAT, Apdo. Aereo 6713 Cali, Colombia Cell: +1-314-477-3973 Email: c.fauquet@cgiar.org Web: www.gcp21.org |
Dr. Martin Fregene Adviser to the HMA FMARD-CTA Abuja, Nigeria Cell: +234-813-554-4577 Email: MFregene@gmail.org |
Dr. Ken Dashiell DDG IITA IITA Ibadan, Nigeria Cell: +234-803-978-4446 Email: k.dashiell@cgiar.org |
Organizing Committee:
FMARD-CTA | Dr. Martin Fregene Eng Tony Egba |
IITA | Dr. Ken
Dashiell Dr. Peter Kulakow |
CRP-L&F | Dr. Thomas Randolph |
CRP-HT | Dr. Allan Duncan |
CRP-RTB | Dr. Graham Thiele |
ILRI-Ibadan | Dr. Iheanacho Okike |
GCP21 | Dr. Claude M. Fauquet |
GCP21, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), the CGIAR research programs on (Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), Livestock and Fish and Humidtropics and the private livestock feed sector with common interests in development of a cassava-based feed system in Africa are partnering to organize a workshop in IITA, Ibadan, Oct 28-30, 2013, to ask the question:
What is the best way to develop a cassava-based feed system in Africa?
Workshop Summary:
Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava with a
production regularly increasing each year. However, Nigeria
continues to import nearly all of its flour, starch,
sweeteners and animal feed that could all be made from
cassava produced and processed in Nigeria. This surprising
contradiction is due to the subsistence mode of cassava
production in Nigeria, which is produced, marketed and
consumed entirely for local food products such as garri. In
addition, there is limited processing capacity and limited
value-addition. To fully exploit the fantastic potential of
cassava, especially as a replacement of imported raw
materials and as an export commodity, there is a need to
change how cassava is grown, processed and traded in Nigeria
based upon a value-chain development approach.
A
"cassava transformation plan" has been initiated under the
Agricultural Transformation Program of President Goodluck
Jonathan and implemented by the Honorable Minister of
Agriculture, Dr. Akin Adesina. The cassava transformation
plan seeks to create a new generation of cassava farmers,
oriented towards commercial production to generate a cassava
production surplus dedicated to specific value-added chains.
The overarching strategy of the cassava transformation plan
is to turn the cassava sector in Nigeria into a major player
in local and international flour, starch, sweeteners,
ethanol and dried chips markets by adopting improved
production and processing technologies by organizing
producers and processors into efficient value-added chains.
Implementation of the value-added chain activities
will be driven by the private sector with support from the
public sector. A Cassava Market and Trade Development
Corporation (CMTDC) has been established as a vehicle to
coordinate value-added chain activities between the private
sector, the farmers and the government. Primary activities
of CMTDC are market development, including advocacy with
potential users of cassava-based products and policy makers,
to ensure reliable demand. From the public sector, the
Federal, State, Local governments and NGOs are organizing
and training farmers in modern production methods and supply
chain management while and disseminating improved cassava
varieties and key inputs required to produce high cassava
yields. The Nigerian government will also provide smart
financing and, in some instances, help catalyze processing
by building industrial-scale processing plants and
concessions to the private sector.
Experience from
around the world has shown that crop campaigns to raise
productivity require a close partnership between research
and development partners and the private sector to develop
and implement enabling technologies. The cassava
transformation agenda is investing significantly in
development of improved production methods, new high starch
varieties, disease and pest management and diagnostic
surveys, as well as the development of novel cassava
products. The Cassava Transformation Plan will support the
production of high starch and early maturing varieties
(harvested in 8-10 months), as well as varieties
biofortified with improved nutritional quality to enhance
the health status of consumers, especially children.
Expected impact include the creation of 1.2 million jobs,
half on-farm and half off-farm; an increase of US$450 in
income for 1.8 million cassava farmers through increased
productivity from 12.5 tons/ha to 25 tons/ha; and creation
of strong supply chains.
One of the issues to be
worked out in the Cassava Transformation Plan is the use of
cassava residues or by-products such as cassava peels that
are left as unused waste near processing locations. Another
way to add value to the industrial cassava value chain is to
turn these by-products into a cassava-based system livestock
feed system. Traditionally small farmers discard the peels
to their animals (poultry, goats and pigs) but few attempts
have been made to really establish a cassava-based feed
system to become nutritionally and economically sustainable
and thereby use local products to replace imported products
in the feed industry. Enhanced production under the Cassava
Transformation Plan will produce over 2 million tonnes of
additional cassava by-products each year offering a unique
opportunity to support a cassava-based feed system at an
industrial scale. This will require a close coordination
between several partners including FMARD-CTP in Nigeria, the
private sector in the feed industry, investors, researchers
and farmers..
The main objective of the workshop would be to answer the general question:
What is the best way to develop a cassava-based feed system in Africa?
Subsequent objectives of this workshop will be to discuss the following topics:
The short-term outcomes/impacts expected are:
The long-term outcomes/impacts expected are:
Communication Plan
A communication team has been assembled to report about the meeting and to interact with journalists.
The team is composed of:
Cassava Experts
FMARD Experts
FARA Representative
Nutrition and Livestock Experts
Development Partners
Feed Industry
Producers
Donor Representatives
Consultants
Communications
Sunday 27 OCT:
Gathering of the attendees at IITA, Ibadan
7:00 pm: cocktail
Monday 28 OCT:
9:00 am: Opening of the workshop: Ken Dashiell (Chair)
9:10 am: Objectives of the workshop: Claude Fauquet
9:25 am: Keynote of the Honorable Minister of Agriculture represented by
Dr. Martin Fregene, Senior Technical Advisor to HMA:
The Cassava Transformation Agenda
10:10 am: Motivation and Constraint Card Exercise with discussion
– Acho Okike and Peter Kulakow
11:00 – 11:30 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Cassava as a feed in Africa: Okike Acho (Chair)
– Review presentations
11:30 am: Report on fish production and fish feed in Nigeria:
Dapo Fagbenro
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PDF
11:50 am: Report on cassava-base feed for animal nutrition:
Ellen Dierenfeld
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PDF
12:10 pm: Report on economics of cassava peels for feed:
Simeon Bamire
- PDF
12:30 pm: Cassava feed in Asia: Keith Fahrney
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PDF
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 pm: Discussion—Solutions and Constraints
2:45 – 4:00 pm: The Road Map Beginning: Martin Fregene (Chair)
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PDF
2:45 pm: The production plan for livestock in Nigeria: F. Sonaiya
- PDF
3:05 pm: The production plan for fish in Nigeria: Ololade Adegobe
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PDF
3:25 pm: The production plan for pulses in Nigeria: Gbola Ojewola
3:40 pm: Market for cassava feed: Saeed Lawal
4:00 pm: Extra presentations
Buitrago: Cassava for animal feed
- PDF
Oresegun: Cassava for fish feed
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PDF
4:00 – 4:30 pm: Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Emerging issues from these 4 plans (Chair: Kulakow) -
PDF
Short group work and brief reports in plenary
7:00 pm: dinner
Tuesday 29 OCT
8:30 – 8:45 am: Short Recap of Day 1 Claude Fauquet
8:45 – 9:45 am: Card Exercise – Cross Cutting Emerging
Issues
Elements of the Road Map
9:45
– 10:00 am: Create Groups
10:00 – 10:30 am: Coffee
Break
10:30 – 12:00 pm: Group discussion in 4 groups
– Chairs for the discussion groups: M. Fregene, A.
Okike, P. Kulakow, C. Fauquet
12:00 – 1:00 pm: First
Group short reports and review comments (Chair: Fauquet)
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Second Group
discussion in 4 groups – address review comments and
pilot projects
3:30 – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 –
5:30 pm: Second Group reports – 15 minutes for each
group with 30 minutes for discussion (Chair: Okike) -
PDF
6:00 pm: plans for day 3
and adjourn
7:00 pm: dinner
Use card
exercises and discussion to focus group work.
Additional questions to answer in discussion groups
Wednesday 30 OCT
8:30 – 8:45 am: Short Recap of Day 2 Claude Fauquet
8:45 – 10:30: Discussion about roadmap and pilot
projects in 4 groups:
Fish
Feed Pilot Project
Poultry Feed Peels Studies
Poultry Pilot
Project
Swine Pilot
Martin Fregene,
Acho Okike, Peter Kulakow, Claude Fauquet
10:30 – 11:00:
Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Roadmap elaboration
discussion: Claude Fauquet
Reports from the group
discussions -
PDF
12:15 – 12:30: Closing
the meeting and adjourn:
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30:
Optional field trip to cassava flour production factory in
Ososo