what is cassava farming and processing

 what is cassava farming and processing

In China, many people don’t know what is cassava, they never seen cassava at all. what is cassava farming and processing,Now we Kaifeng Sida Agricultural Products Equipment Co., Ltd will introduce for you: 

Cassava is the root of the Euphorbiaceae plant. Mainly distributed in the tropics. It is a shrubby perennial crop. Stems erect, woody, 2-5 m tall, single-leaved, palmately lobed, papery, lanceolate. Unisexual flowers, panicles, terminal, male and female. Cassava was introduced to China in the 1920s. It was first cultivated in Gaozhou, Guangdong Province, and then introduced to Hainan Island. It is now widely distributed in South China, with the largest cultivation in Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan. It is also introduced trials in the southern part of China such as Fujian, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou, etc.

what is cassava farming and processing,The main uses of cassava are in food, feed and industrial development. Root starch is one of the main starch raw materials in the industry. 65% of the world's total cassava production is used for human food and is the main food crop for low-income farmers in tropical wetlands. As a raw material for the production of feed, cassava meal and leaves are a high-energy feed ingredient. In the fermentation industry, tapioca starch or dried tablets can be used to make alcohol, citric acid, glutamic acid, lysine, cassava protein, glucose, fructose, etc. These products are used in food, beverage, medicine, textile (dyed cloth), paper making, etc. Both have important uses. Mainly used as feed and extracted starch in China.

Cassava is one of the world's three largest potatoes (cassava, sweet potato, potato). There are more than 100 species of cassava, cassava is the only species used for economic cultivation, and the others are wild species. Cassava can be divided into two types of sweet and bitter varieties.

what is cassava farming and processing,The annual trade volume of cassava accounts for about 10% of the total production. The main products are dry tablets, granules and tapioca starch. China, Japan, the United States and other countries are the world's major importers of cassava products, accounting for 70-80% of their total trade. Thailand and Nigeria is the world's largest exporter of cassava products, with other major exporters being Indonesia and Vietnam. Kaifeng Sida Agricultural Products Equipment Co., Ltd mainly help these people to get high quality cassava starch, our cassava starch equipment produced by our skillful European technology welders, definitely, our major market will be Thailand, Nigeria, Tanzania, Vietnam and Indonesia.