IITA has inaugurated its Central African hub with the commissioning of an official building in Kinshasa that will cover the west provinces of DR Congo and an office in Bukavu, in South-Kivu that will serve the entire Great Lakes subregion.
Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), will during his one week working visit to Nigeria next week, deliver a lecture at IITA.
The new Cassava Bread Development Policy stipulating 40 per cent cassava in wheat bread, has been described as an initiative capable of helping Nigeria to save about $252m (N40.03bn) annually.
The study was carried out by Séverine Delstanche, a researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) with funding from the Belgian government.
IMPRESSED by the feat, Oyo State government has lauded efforts by researchers at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in successfully producing bread with 40 per cent cassava flour that has similar qualities as 100 per cent wheat …
