Report on selection of cassava products of interest and cassava processors and processing groups

Abstract

Two (2) cassava products of interest and one (1)processor/processing group were to be identified in the thirteen (13) districts within which the UPoCA project is being implemented in Ghana. A structured questionnaire was designed, developed and administered to processors in the 13 districts. Two cassava products of interest selected for processing in all the districts were High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) and Gari. Three potential processors were short-listed in each district after the information from the completed questionnaires were analysed. The CSIR-FRI Project Team then visited the three short-listed processors in each district to access the processing facilities they had. Based on the facilities the processors had and taking into consideration other factors that could make a processing centre a sustainable one for the district, one processing training centre was selected for each district. The processing centres (towns/villages) selected were as follows; Bekwai District: Bogyawa, Bosome Freho District: Amormoso, Adansi North District: Oseikrom Farms and Agro Ventures (Oseikrom), Amansie West District: Nyade, Adansi South District: Kwame Adjei, Upper Denkyira District: Pokukrom, Obuasi Minicipal: Domeabra, Assin North District: Sekanbodua gari processing group (Sekanbodua), Amansie Central District: Koduase, Kwabre District: Wawase, Ejisu Juabeng District: Achinakrom gari processors association (Achinakrom), Afigya Sekyere District: Odumase cassava processing company (Tano Odumase), Ahafo Ano South: Harry farms (Abesewa)