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We are going global with cassava bread - Foluso Olaniyan, UTe CEO The cassava bread project is high on the agenda of the federal government. It stems from its agriculture transformation agenda platform. This product whose ultimate make- up is 40% cassava flour inclusion has achieved io% inclusion. UTC's cassava loaf, Starloaf which has been off the shelf for two months is back in the market and it is going international. Why export when the company is yet to have a strong foothold in Nigerian market? SIAKA MOMOH, BusinessOay's Industry Editor, takes on UTe's (EO, Foluso Olaniyan on this and other issues.
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put • strain on ow eqWpmmI. output. hmcr the need to IMt track roub ma1nlmance by two monlhl. on the IIdYb 01 our ~ Durin« the period 01 mafnlt'l\al"a, we did not produce SCarb! But now, the SWioefIl becIr. this time with .ddldonal quality and wtth a hWW Inctu*w1Iewd of hWI quaItty CUIM'II
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,Whit hi you r wtnnl"l 1tn.1rsY' In the pri"'e JeC1or. company budseu. encompamns ~ulpment and production ~ and plan are aJwIrys conduckd lit the end of me third quaner of me year ~tlII
tmpIementadon. DespIte the tft'l.my national suike _ _ abM: to hft me market lhr Ikh wedt oflile ynr. We bnmdtd. !Old for CMh and JoIk-t upwith ta:5tfns~ whJct. we opmmtolhr: pubtic. Wewenla5ltp l'urtherby alIowIns bakn, miIkn, NMl)AC an::! bltt!ma donal agmde$1O come In and Yerifyour Inetu· slon dalms and !hey Idt J*-ed and utWicd. Wh .. mean:JUUtkM"Kon~.. tx-f, Became we realbed thai these products haw: brm. laSted and c:ommmded by pre! dmb m tw.kol SOft' I Ulblb olsomeCOtJn trie5 who rilhed our pMidem. we decided 10 1Iq)t.ci:.~onqua8lyandddNfty.., dank. ¥h: an! aho ~ • exportI.flI then 10 ~ African IXII.IfIlrieIIO IUppOft ~'Jadvocxyolcasuva~asnrw
mMerWs for btNd and other Iood produds. 1henew, ~ onehaw:brm. ~
to Intm\abonaI \\o'e haw kIddIcs' 1ooI""" _standards. __ ~_
. . has bMdI ntJIllbus for tracnbiIky. 'belt before' dates to pt"Otecl mmumrn and tn.iII C"OmUmerS' confidmce barcode ror ~ putp08eIln retail t::kIdet3 m Increased ~ flour Indusion to reduce the intake of sllItm bystUlft'l inloIeran!:con,9.Dt1II!I'Jandlo8ddrns conttrnS expresed gtycanntc b1cko:J: of wheat flour by t-Ith comdous mmurnns. AIIlhe!e are mandatory standanhfor Inter nadonaI producu. Wel~ craJiin« theSWIo.l as an Intr!madonaJ produa .., we hope 10 start exporlin« to odtd" Mrican rountrles by Otrist· IlIIl$, ~ wtth West Africa. We want to make this yean' Ouimnas a cassava 1U1~ Owtstmasb AlrkanJlldons. We~~
the ~ ddlnp: ~Africa. AJ we ~ we haw: Ippoblled tgtntJ for the products in COIonou and Aa:n. \\~ an' jose wattIrc 10 fine tunt: our MoU Ind aD neceMIlJ)' paper ~ bdofe_ ~ delivery.
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