date:Mar 06, 2014
oted data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Import-Export Department.
Currently, the country's cassava output ranked among the top- ten countries recording the highest cassava productivity, with 17. 6 tons per hectare.
Total cassava-growing areas nationwide reached 560,000 hectares, which produces nearly 9.4 million tons per year. Of which, about 30 percent are consumed domestically as food, for animal feed production and pharmaceuticals making, input for production of ethanol fuel and