Currently, Nigeria’s plantain flour production is put at 25,000 metric tons (MT) and demand is 125,000MT, leaving a gap of 99,800MT, a recent plantain report by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation states.
Nigerian farmers can tap into the fast booming plantain processing business to create wealth and earn foreign exchange as the demand for plantain flour, snacks continues to rise.
Plantain which produces fruit all year round and cultivated on a variety of soil type, can be process into flour and s
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
