Transforming Wet Cassava Peel into High Quality Animal Feed Ingredients

Abstract

The transformation of cassava peels into animal feed ingredients has potential for Africa to create new products (12 million tons of safe and hygienic feed ingredients with two-thirds the energy value of maize and worth US$1.8 billion annually); lead to a new industry in the cassava value chain (that employs 500,000 persons annually, 80% women); reduce competition between animal and human for cereals (releasing eight million tons of cereals from livestock industry); and cleaning up the environment.