The government has transformed cassava into an industrial crop following the launch of the Sunbird Bioenergy Zambia cassava project in Kawambwa District of Luapula Province.
And Sunbird Bioenergy Zambia Head of Agriculture Mark Muchinga disclosed that his company has in the last one year registered 5000 smallholder cassava farmers in Kawambwa.
Luapula Province minister Nickson Chilangwa who disclosed this said that unlike in the past when the crop was grown for household food security, it now has various industrial uses.
“ Production of industrial alcohol, ethanol, starch, electricity generation among others as some of the industrial uses of cassava, “ the minister said.
Bahati MP Loses Son after Months in Hospital
Arthur Kinyanjui Kimani
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The family of Bahati Member of Parliament (MP) Kimani Ngunjiri is mourning the death of their son, Arthur Kinyanjui Kimani, who succumbed to a severe respiratory illness on March 1, 2021.
Kinyanjui passed away at Aga Khan University Hospital in Mombasa where he had been admitted for months.
The 32-year-old was admitted in mid-2020 with a severe case of pneumonia which had resulted in him being diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
DP William Ruto and Bahati Member of Parliament Kimani Ngunjiri when the DP visited Arthur on February 7, 2021