Our Goal

Enhancing cassava production and processing technologies through mechanisation for sustainable improvements in food security, incomes and livelihoods for farmers, processors, and marketers in the cassava sector.

Our Objectives

  • Upgrade and expand of traditional planting harvesting and processing methods.
  • Negotiate access and transfer of cassava mechanisation and agro processing technologies.
  • Increase cassava production through mechanisation across the entire value chain.
  • Create market linkages between smallholder farmers and agro processing centers.
  • Build the capacity of local entrepreneurs to design prototype machines, manufacture, maintain and repair equipment for planting, harvesting and processing cassava.
  • Expand the utilisation of safe, quality, diversified, valueadded cassava products and derivatives.

Our Results

  • 6 prototypes accessed for mechanization: 2 row planter, 4 row planter, cassava uprooter, cultivator, cultivator cum fertilizer applicator, stem cutter
  • Enhanced agricultural business management capacities of more than 300 entrepreneurs
  • Cassava productivity enhanced by more than 200%: from 10t/ha to 30t/ha
  • Robust cassava value chains and market linkages developed: More than 10 processors onboarded to the project
  • 150% reduction in cost of production
  • 240% increase in incomes from the sale of cassava products
  • Reduced the demand on the labour market and improved quality of lives by decreasing the amount of time required for farming activities, especially by women
  • 200 service providers trained in mechanization service provision
  • More than 18500 farmers reached to date

CAMAP at a glance

3

Number of Countries

18500

Farmers reached (Over)

35

Providers, Processos & Input Suppliers

200

Yields Increase (%)

240

Income Increase (%)

How we got started

CAMAP was started by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in an effort to reduce drudgery among cassava farmers while in turn increasing their food security. The project started in 2013 after a realization of the potential for cassava value chain to address challenges of food insecurity The project is implemented in 3 countries: Uganda, Zambia and Nigeria in partnership with National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Zambian Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) and National Centre For Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) respectively. The project is currently funded by Department for International Development (DFID), UK

Stay in touch with us

Have any questions?

aatf@aatf-africa.org

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+254-20 422 3700

Abuja Office

+234-816 578 3184