Brazil: Cassava chain is immeasurable in use and numbers

If there is an agricultural production chain that is not popular, but which has an enormous weight in economic capillarity, this is cassava. It is also the face of Brazil. A jack of all trades, a lot is known from the root of the visible side of its use, in fried or cooked food and in flour, in addition to the tapioca that the Northeast exported all over Brazil. The “hidden” side is the billionaire segment of starch, or starch, which is present in many products that few people imagine, from baked goods to sausages, from cheese bread to paper, from beer to fabrics, and so on. And still advancing to modified starches, specialties that will link a series of other items. In addition to the pandemic, which made the sector gain more markets with the “stay at home”, 2021 also marks the “debut” of another by-product, added to the commercial menu of cassava. The aerial part of the plants – the foliage and branches – with a high protein content, became food for animals. In fact, this is ...