Existing technologies of drying and grading cassava peels could hold the key to providing a readily available and sustainable source of animal feeds, increasing incomes for women and boosting food security in West Africa.
Researchers and partners working with the CGIAR Research Programs on Livestock and Fish, Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics and Roots, Tubers and Bananas, have successfully tested a new and faster method of drying and preparing cassava peels as livestock feed.
A new 10-minute film by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) partner, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), explains how ‘if exploited to the fullest, the innovation would yield at least four million tonnes of high-quality animal feed ingredients valued at around USD 600 million per year.’
The research is led by Iheanacho Okike, a scientist with ILRI in Ibadan, Nigeria, who says the new process ‘could also release about two million tonnes of maize for human consumption that would otherwise have been used for animal feed, contributing significantly to food security efforts in the country.’
In Nigeria, nearly three million households (mostly women) produce fifty million tonnes of cassava annually. Most of the crop is used for human consumption, but about 14 million tonnes of its by-products, including peels and under-sized tubers are thrown away as waste.
The new innovation quickens the drying process by removing excess water from freshly processed peels; five hundred litres of water can be removed from a tonne of fresh peels in just 30 minutes,’ says Okike.
Through the technology, scientists have successfully reduced the drying of cassava peels from three days to one, and to just six hours in some cases. The resulting dry cake is then loosened, sun dried and divided into various grades for different animals, including large and small ruminants and poultry.
The researchers are working with commercial feed manufacturers who will constitute the major users of the technology and with small-scale food processors who are already using similar machines in their factories. They hope to scale up the innovation to the rest of Nigeria and to other cassava-producing countries in Africa if funding is available.
‘We hope the processors will add value to the waste peels and turn this into a sustainable business,’ says Graham Thiele, director of the Roots, Tubers and Bananas research program. The project is also working with some leading commercial poultry-feed producers in Nigeria to test the use of the high quality cassava peel mash in chicken feeds.
A commercial poultry feed manufacturer involved in a feeding trial in the project described the use of cassava peel mash (CPM) in broiler feedstuff as safe, adding that a 50-75kg inclusion of CPM in a tonne of poultry feeds does not affect their performance.
This research is a collaboration of ILRI, IITA, the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21 Century (GCP21).
Check this blog soon for more outputs from the project.
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THANLK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS INNOVATION on cassava peels project. I am a Ghanaian who lives around lot of cassava peels . and we call it waste. I would be very Happy to learn more about it.
Thank you very much.
Aggrey Emmanuel, pls contact us at Afilap@gmail.com
we have already an operation in Nigeria about that.
would be glad to assist you about that.
Cassava peels or pulp wet waste can also be ensiled in bags and packed
Am so enlightened and proud of we Africans, am starting a project in cassava and this information is so timely. Thank you, will be keeping up with updates
Its really potential and worth watching this ,making wealth from waste Cassava Peel Off.
I am basically an Origin of INDIA and trade in
Cattle & Animal Feed Supplements .
I am quite very much interested in importing this Cassava Peels Powder in bulk quantities.
So, would you can suggest an one who can supply this!
My Contact Mob No+91 90951 33888
Dear Horlicks, we could provide you with large quantity of waste cassava peel. If you are interested, you can contact us at blevims@gmail.com
Greetings
Please would like to know if you are willing to have a skype chat as regards this. We are willing to offer a long term supply flow from Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria to your location in India.
Pls kindly send a message to famoyek@ymail.com . we have in bulk of cassava peel powder.
Pls I am interested in this business, pls how do I get all the equipment to start this business.
Thank you so much
Joshua Adewale
Mr Joshua Adewale, pls contact us at Afilap@gmail.com
we have already an operation in Nigeria and would be glad to assist you about that.
I am a Nigerian. This is a great development. It will certainly make livestock farming cheaper.
My concern here is the safe percentage inclusion of cassava peel in catfish feed formulation
What is cost of the cassava peel drying / processing equipment
ILRI’s Anandan Samireddypalle says:
Thanks for your interest on our cassava peel processing technology. You can email me for further details on the cassava peel processing technology business for producing livestock feeds. If you are based in Nigeria you can visit us on IITA Campus in Ibadan for seeing the demonstration and further discussions.
A.Samireddypalle@cgiar.org
i tried grating the peels but it wont, how do you come about using the grater or what specific model of grater is used to grate the peels?
Please I am interested in this and I would love to visit you in Ibadan. Please let me know how this could be arranged. Keep up the good job.
I am very glad for this innovation and will like to apply it in my grasscutter feed and my catfish feed also. Please i will like to visit in ibadan for a more practical explanation and knowledge on ow i can process on a small scale for my farm use. Thanks
Can snails be feed with tue cassava peel mash? Please advice
Please i will glad to have the equipment for this cassava peel powder, please link me up
I don’t if you will see this comment but I always wanted a way to communicate with someone who knows how to process this cassava peel and if possible for me to get these machines you are using.Even if am in Zambia because I see more great potential to make billions here.please reply
Please email either Dr Tunde Amole, an ILRI animal feed scientist based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Fast (t.amole@cgiar), or Dr Iheanacho Okike, a former ILRI scientist now working for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in Ibadan, Nigeria (i.okike@cgiar.org).
Hi Martin,
as our company is looking to start an operation with this technology in Nigeria,
in Awka Ibom & Delta states, AND also, very soon in Luapula Province in Zambia,
we may be able to cooperate in a mutual beneficial way.
pls email me to Afilap@gmail.com for further discussions.
best regards, Mickey
what is the recommended percentage inclusion of cassava in broiler feed formulation?
Your project sounds very interesting in processing cassava peelings into animal feed I am based outside Nigeria and would like to visit your site during my vacation. i own a poultry farm in Nigeria and would like to look into animal feed production. Please email me.
the cassava peels mash is replacing the maize component in the feed formula. you need to prepare feed for fish as per the developing periods, with different percentage of cassava peels mash (maize replacement). for more discussions please email to afilap@gmail.com
Thanks for this but sir I have a proposal on this peel how it can be fully explored. I need more and deeper knowledge on how to go about it.pls if there other relevant documents in relation to this for it to my email sir or if need be to visit you why on site pls notify me from Nigeria
JOHNBULL OBIANOZIE ,
what is the recommended percentage inclusion of cassava peel formula in cat fish feed. or do i give them just like that.
the cassava peels mash is replacing the maize component in the feed formula. you need to prepare feed for fish as per the developing periods, with different percentage of cassava peels mash (maize replacement). for more discussions please email to afilap@gmail.com
casava peel to poultry feed is a sustainable means and help operational costs. I am therefore interested to establish a factory in Papua new Guinea and would your assistance to guide me through and to arrange with my local government here to have a team flown over if you can please do contact me on email sylvesterkomba@Gmail.com.
thank you.
Dis Is Gud! Pls, Wat Is D Shelf Life Of Dis Procesed Peel !
Well done for this initiative, I am a poultry farmer vased in Katsina how do I get this technology and replicate on my farm and community.
Yes i can help you to buy mixer,grounder and pallet machine from china for your poultry if you are interested like $12000 contact ebunadelu@gmail.com
This good program.can we known the mix method for birds and goat and sheep’s.
Will done, for helping nigeria can any body visit your company for site visit with agree time and date
Please I am in Nigeria and I have garri factory, I want to go into cassava peel production for animal feed, what can I do, I don’t mind coming over for traninig,thanks,08068970401,my name is, Deacon Bamgbose Samuel
So happy to read this, how I wish the Nigerian Government would do everything within thier power to support this.
The efforts of Mr Okike and others working on this project are commendable. This can actually widen the profit margin of Gari production businesses and impact positively on our environment.
Thank you very much sir, for this great information about cassava peel waste to animal feeds. Sir, my question do you apply or add any ingredients to the waste peel before you can use it to feed the animal?
i am interested pls help with how to get the machine and the required skills
Good day pls I need improved breeds of goat am a goat farmer in Nigeria tnx
Iam highly motivated for this kind of new initiative. It will help me in my poultry farm. Since all this days I have been wasted Casava peel without knowing the usefulness. Oh great! Thanks a lot for the wisdom.