Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates. Apart from being a staple crop in both rural and urban house-holds in Nigeria, cassava is a major source of income […]
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Nigeria’s installed annual soybean crushing capacity is estimated at approximately 600,000 MT. An estimated 255,000 tons of soybeans were crushed in MY2010/11, representing only 42 percent of installed processing capacity. Eight large processors account for nearly 60 percent of Nigeria’s soybean crushing industry. Industry sources forecast crushing […]
Read more →Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a cultivated tropical cereal grass. It is generally, although not universally, considered to have first been domesticated in North Africa, possibly in the Nile or Ethiopian regions as recently as 1000 BC1. The cultivation of sorghum played a crucial role in […]
Read more →Every vegetable contains varying amounts of vegetable oil. This “crude vegetable oil” is the unrefined and unprocessed oil produced from vegetables – and how it is found in the natural vegetable oil state when it is first extracted from the vegetable, whether the vegetable oil comes from […]
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