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Research Institute Develops Cassava Storage Technology
The Nigerian Stored Products and Research Institute (NSPRI) Rumueme, Port Harcourt has developed a technology that can preserve fresh cassava harvested from the farm for at least three months.
Revealing this in an interview with The Tide in his office in Port Harcourt, the officer in-charge of the institute, Mr Simeon Robbert said the technology was developed due to the present challenges facing famers.
He said that farmers have suffered a lot from flooding of the farm, where they will be forced to harvest all their cassava product at a time, which will make the product plenty at that time, and after that there is scarcity.
With the technology, he said that farmers can afford to save their cassava product for at least three months fresh, and can plan themselves gradually unlike where they are forced to use all by nature.
According to Robbert, the new preservation technology only uses saw-dust and water, but the techniques on the usages and the environment is what makes the difference.
The NSPRI Port Harcourt Chief also explained that their contribution as a research institute is in the preservation and storage of agricultural products, to minimize wastage of produce.
In the area of information dissemination, Robbert explained that the extension department has been doing tremendous work, pointing out that the Omademe community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State has benefited from some of the technologies developed by the institute, as well as some secondary schools in Port Harcourt.
He told The Tide when he conducted the reporter round some of the facilities produced by the institute, that some other technology, like the Multi-purpose dryer, vegetable preserver among others have been developed, but added that the institute is already perfecting plans to reach out to more communities as well as go into partnership with local government councils.
Although the institute have said that it has reached out to communities and schools, but the impact of its produce is yet to be felt within its catchment area, especially within the Rumueme and surrounding areas.
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