begun a mission to export Nigeria's innovation
in bakery – Cassava bread, to other African
countries as he recently took the bread to
Tanzania where he publicly broke bread with the
President of the United Republic of Tanzania,
Mrisho Jakaya Kikwete.
Tanzania's former President, Benjamin Mkapa
also ate the bread for the first time. The
leaders commended the innovation, noting that
it would bring several benefits to the continent.
The 40 per cent cassava bread initiative was
first developed by the International Institute for
Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Ibadan, as part of
efforts to boost the utilization of cassava and
improve local content.
President Kikwete after inaugurating the IITA
Science Building in Dar es Salaam on Monday
commended IITA for the bread technology,
saying that the bread had an "excellent" taste.
"There is no difference between this bread and
the normal bread we are used to," he added.
Obasanjo, a goodwill ambassador for IITA,
encouraged the Tanzanian President to promote
the use of cassava in confectionaries in his
country to transform agriculture. He noted that
the use of cassava flour in bread would stimulate
the demand for the root crop, create jobs and,
more importantly, make farmers proud.
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