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.