Uganda: Oversupply and lack of market for cassava is creating miseries for farmers in Teso

It is reported that the farmers in Kumi and Bukedea are stuck with cassava. We even see an overflow of dried cassava at the weekly flea Bukedea market. This shows the growing predicaments that our village farmers face on account of lack of agro-processing to add value to their produce which would assure them of a wider market and better prices. Cassava is known to be a key industrial ingredient in many manufactured goods the world over. What is needed is for the raw cassava to be processed into finer raw materials for the industries and that would be a real salvation for the farmers in Kumi, Bukedea and other parts of the country where cassava thrives well. This brings in the need for the leaders of those areas to have strategic thinking in the form of providing these communities with Agro-processing abilities. It would be commendable if the leaders of this area could invest in establishing a cassava processing plant which can not only consume the cassava that the farmers are ...