Agro-Allied Integrated Cassava Value Chain Project Nigeria (AICAV) is a social business strategy designed by Agro-Allied Commodity and Service Production Nigeria Limited (and her Germany-based consortium called the Green Leben Initiative (GLI)) for smallholder cassava farmers.

The project regards cassava as a High-Value Crop (HVC) aims to significantly increase household incomes of cassava farmers in Nigeria through modern processing of its by-products, training of outgrower farmers in modern agricultural methods, technology transfer, good corporate governance and centralised marketing of these by-products.

The AICAV project is designed to create a centralised industrial and marketing hub for cassava processing (as opposed the traditional subsistent processing of cassava by individual farmers for food and primary by-products like Gari, Fufu, Lafun, etc) and value-addition to be co-owned by smallholder farmers. The idea is to process cassava into all its by-products and allow smallholder farmers/outgrowers to earn income from the billions of naira of turnover that could be derived from the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary by-products of cassava.

This will increase double the incomes of farmers and help them live off their cassava assets more sustainably.

Projections

For the first phase, the AICAV is projected to process up to 20,000 metric tonnes of cassava tubers annually into Gari, Starch and cassava peel for the US$2 billion animal feed market in Nigeria. In the subsequent phase of the project, AICAV will process cassava into High-Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF), as well as other industrial-grade tertiary by-products.
Waste water from our industrial processes would be treated into organic liquid fertiliser for our smallholder/outgrower farmers to improve their yield.
Additionally, a technical training institute will be incorporated into the project to boost the capacity of farmers in modern and precision agriculture

The AICAV projects is projected to have by the the second phase yeild a turnover of over 9.5 billion naira while empowering over a thousand and eight hundred smallholder/Outgrower.