Increasing economic opportunities through sustainable and competitive cassava production, processing, marketing and enterprise development. Reduce the impact of virulent cassava mosaic disease Increase the productivity of cassava Develop and expand post-harvest processing and marketing

1. Cassava Enterprise Development Project
(CEDP)
Achievements, lessons learned, and the way forward
G. Tarawali, Project Manager
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2. Outline of presentation
1. Brief introduction
2. Project focal states and donors
3. Achievements and activities
4. Lessons learned
5. The way forward
6. Conclusion
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3. Introduction
• In 2002 the Nigeria’s Presidential Initiative
on cassava was launched
• Objective of achieving an annual income
of US$5 billion from processing and
exporting cassava
• IITA supported this vision by the initiation of
2 projects
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4. Introduction
Integrated Cassava Project (ICP)
Preemptive Management of the
Cassava Enterprise
Virulent Cassava Mosaic
Development Project (CEDP)
Disease in Nigeria (CMD)
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5. Complementarities between CMD & CED Projects
Processing, marketing, and enterprise development
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6. Project Focal States and Funding
• Duration 5 years: October 2004 – September 2009
• Funding: USAID and SPDC (Global Development
Alliance)
• Total Funding: USD11.9 million
Contributions (m): Project States:
Shell = US$7.5; SS: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River,
USAID = US$2.9; Delta, Edo and Rivers
IITA = US$1.5
SE: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo
FGN = US$17.1
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7. Project Objective (CEDP)
General objective
Increase economic opportunities through sustainable and
competitive cassava production, processing, marketing
and enterprise development
Specific objectives
1. Reduce the impact of virulent cassava mosaic disease
2. Increase the productivity of cassava
3. Develop and expand post-harvest processing and
marketing
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8. Achievements and Activities
Role as Project Manager
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9. Summary of major activities
Targets for 2007/Indicators This Year Target This Year Actual
Income From Selected Commodities and Products $13.1m $14.2m
Job Creation 1700 1747
Increased Agricultural Productivity and Marketing
Sales of agricultural commodities/products $13.1 $14.4
Area under sustainable management (ha) 3500 7319
Productivity of selected commodities/products 21t/ha 25.6t/ha
Clients adopting improved technologies 100000 76721
Number of technologies introduced 12 18
Increased Commercial viability of micro, small, and medium enterprises
Enterprises benefiting from Business Development Services (BDS) 279 707
Sustainable Producer Associations 121 70
Obtained Green Rating for 3 consecutive times
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10. 1. Reduce impact of CMD disease
Germplasm evaluation, multiplication and distribution strategies
• The Problem
• Imminent and increasing possible threat of the Ugandan strain of the CMD
virus to the Nigerian cassava economy
• Proposed solution
• Pre-emptive management of CMD through rapid deployment CMD-resistant,
high yielding cultivars
• Constraints
• IITA cannot release a cassava variety in Nigeria
• Variety release process in Nigeria takes from 6 to 8 years (no release of new
cassava variety from 1986 to 2004)
• Fast track participatory selection approach (FTPSA)
• All executing agencies involved in variety release participate from the onset in
a combined series of trials executed concurrently for 2 years.
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11. 1. Reduce impact of CMD disease (contd)
Ten varieties officially released-2005/6
IITA improved varieties
Top 10 varieties released in 2 years
• TME 419,
• TMS 98/0505,
• TMS 97/2205,
• TMS 98/0510,
• TMS 98/0581,
• TMS 92/0326,
• TMS 96/1632,
• TMS 98/0002,
• TMS 92/0057
• NR87184
Resistant to CMD, other pests and diseases
• CNN 50t/ha by Zimbabwe farmers
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12. 1. Reduce impact of CMD disease (contd)
Yield of improved and local cassava varieties in farmers
fields by State
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