TY  - JOUR
T1  - Industrialization of Cassava Sector in Ghana: Progress and the Role of Developing High
Starch Cassava Varieties
AU - Obeng Dankwa, Kwame AU - Boakye Peprah, Bright 
JO  - Agricultural Journal
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 26
EP  - 29
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9155
DO  - aj.2020.26.29
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=aj.2020.26.29
KW  - starch
KW  -waxy-starch
KW  -Ghana
KW  -industrialization
KW  -Cassava
AB  - In Ghana, cassava is a marginalized crop in
food policies due to low research attention it has received
compared to the popularly known cereals such as maize
and rice. However, high starch content of the cassava root
is an important characteristic that present the crop as a
potential industrial raw material to serve as employment
to improve income and livelihoods. In light of this, the
government of Ghana in 2001 introduced an initiative
called the Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) on Cassava,
which aimed at substantially increasing the nation’s
export revenue through transformed smallholder
production methods and development of cassava-starch
industries in Ghana. Ethanol is reported as the largest
opportunity for cassava industrialization in Ghana
followed by food-grade starch. However, local beverage
manufacturers such as Kasapreko still imports over
25 million litres of ethanol every year. This is because of
inadequate supply of ethanol from local starch factories.
This can largely be attributed to lack of cassava varieties
that can yield about 75% or more starch of their total dry
weight to feed the starch factories for sustainable
production. Therefore, this review seeks to explore how
important the development of cassava varieties that are
high starch yielding (about 75-85% starch of its dry root
weight) than the current varieties (around 57.26% starch)
sustained industrialization of the cassava sector in Ghana.
ER  -