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Trends in Global Cassava Production and
Utilization
Subash Dasgupta
Senior Plant Production Officer
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
28 June 2011
World Tapioca Conference , Bangkok,
Thailand
Advantage of Cassava production
- Food security Crop
- Important component of diet for more than I
billion population
- More attention to indigenous crop
- Alternative to expensive cereals
- Emerging as energy security crop
- Donor support for biofuel initiative
- Brining marginal farmers into cash economy
• Ability to tolerate highly unfavourable
environmental conditions
Emerging Issues
• A competitive substitute of maize for starch and ethanol
production
• Competition for land with cereals
• Deforestation (mainly Viet Nam) for land
• Ethanol Plants (Indonesia, Thailand, China and Viet
Nam)
• Growing domestic and international market
• Market is very competitive in terms of price and volume
• Conflict between food and energy
• Interest to this crop has been growing
• Demand in China is growing
Table . World cassava market at a glance
Component
2008
2009
2010
Change
2010 over
2009
World
Production
(million
tonnes fresh
root equiv.)
239.9
251.0
248.7
- 0.9%
Trade
18.9
28.2
29.2
3.8
11.2
11.8
4.8
Trade -share 7.9
of production
(%)
Cassava Price (USD/tonne)
2009
2010
Changes
2010 over
2009
Chips to 171.1
China
137.4
199.1
52.4
Starch
281.3
496.0
87.1
41.4
76.1
98.8
Items
2008
383.6
Thai
57.2
domestic
root
prices
Cassava Production in Asia (million
tonnes)
Countries
2007
2008
2009
2010
Thailand
26.9
25.16
30.08
22.00
Indonesia
21.59
Viet Nam
19.99
8.19
22.50
8.70
India
8.23
9.34
9.06
22.04
8.56
9.62
10.00
China
7.88
8.30
8.70
8.00
Cambodia
Philippines
2.22
1.87
3.68
1.94
3.50
2.04
3.60
2.20
Other Asia
1.11
1.61
1.10
1.17
Cassava Yield in some Asian countries in 2009
Yield (t/ha)
Thailand
22.68
Viet Nam
Cambodia
16.82
22.27
Laos
Myanmar
14.71
13.40
Potential yield
30-35 t/ha with existing
technologies
Major Cassava producing countries
(million tonnes)
Countries
2007
2008
2009
2010
Nigeria
43.41
44.58
45.00
45.70
Brazil
26.64
26.54
26.60
26.00
Indonesia
19.99
21.59
22.04
22.50
Thailand
26.92
25.16
30.08
22.00
Congo
15.00
15.01
15.03
15.10
Angola
9.73
10.06
12.83
13.50
Ghana
10.22
11.35
12.23
12.50
India
8.23
9.06
9.62
10.00
Recommendations
• Improving supply sides by increasing
productivity and improving processing
technologies
• Need variety having resistance to pests and
higher starch contents
• Increased use of biotechnology in developing
modern varieties
• Develop intensive production and processing
methods for small-scale farmers
Continuation
• Creation of an appropriate policy
framework to sustain it food security crop
• Cutting down post-harvest losses through
investment in processing technologies
• Integrated farmers in value chain and
interact with livestock and energy value
chains
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