African Officials Seek Local Value-added Food Products

African agricultural officials have converged on Cameroon to map out ways of processing the continent's enormous food resources instead of exporting the raw products to Europe. The international trade fair on agriculture and agro industries is focusing on the cassava crop, hoping to add value to the more than 200 million tons of the starchy tuber Africa produces each year. Processing key As 300 women - members of the Akono cassava farmers association - peel, boil, steam, slice,...

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