YucaChain
@yucachain
Followers
53
Following
19
Media
3
Statuses
30
Bridging Nigeria’s cassava value chain; connecting farmers, processors, exporters & buyers through a digital marketplace for trade, logistics, and traceability.
Nigeria
Joined July 2025
Are you a cassava farmer or processor? Do you buy products derived from cassava or the cassava root itself? Here's a community I'm building to connect everyone that matters to cassava together. https://t.co/AVBgaSwbAx Don't miss out on this revolution that's coming. #cassava
0
0
0
Are you a cassava farmer or processor? Do you buy products derived from cassava or the cassava root itself? Here's a community I'm building to connect everyone that matters to cassava together. https://t.co/AVBgaSvDKZ Don't miss out on this revolution that's coming. #cassava
0
0
0
Reliable value chain that ensure fulfillment of everyone's desire. @yucachain in not just another agritech, it is the new normal in the Nigeria's cassava value chain. #cassava #valuechain #agriculture #agritech #agribusiness
@dlasgidifarmer @blessingmene_ @MyresWN @ibrahimanex @shankswilliams @Femi__Adekoya @TheFeedAfrica @AdepetuTayo @HenriNyakarundi One of the actual problems is 'connecting buyers and sellers'. You need an aggregation centre that will have processing, cleaning, sorting, grading, and storage facilities. You make margins from reliable value chains that will ensure fulfilment of transactions.
0
1
3
Real pain farmers are facing. This is what @yucachain wants to solve for cassava, a marketplace for all actors. Think about Jumia, Glovo, Chowdeck, etc. But for cassava.
Looking at this truckload of cassava, I can’t help but calculate the loss farmers are facing today. 😔 Back then, when a ton sold for ₦180k–₦200k, 30–40 tonnes was worth between ₦5.4 million to ₦7.5 million — without even processing it! 💰 Now, the same quantity goes for
2
2
4
This is a brutal truth on African Agritech thank you @blessingmene_ We don’t build to address real needs, & on faulty biz model. We complain there isn’t enough fund for Agritech but I ask what are we building with the available funds? -ideas that don’t solve real problems.
5
6
21
What are your thoughts on a platform that brings together farmers and buyers for individual crops, say cassava. Do you think such a platform (like Jumia, Glovo, Chowdeck, etc.) could solve the problems underlying the pricing issues and others around the crop? Let me know!
1
1
2
What a question! Years of research, yet we can not preserve the shelf life of a root crop But we can actually. That's part of the solution we are building at @yucachain. Apart from modifying the stem for better yield and shelf life, we can preserve the root against PPD, too.
@kelizfarmsandc and the man gave his friend a $15billion Coastal road. Did I see “lower consumer power”? We will all learn economics together. Our research institutions have not cracked an indigenous method to preserve the shelf life of raw cassava?
1
1
0
What if @yucachain can bridge this gap in supply chain?
@Osi_Suave This is a sad reality, Nigeria has a very poor supply chain network when it comes to agriculture and the govt hasn't addressed this hence why the middle men will always milk the farmers to make more profit...
0
1
0
We just submitted our digital innovation to the WSA Young Innovators! @yucachain is committed to connecting every actor in the cassava value chain for a seamless, direct market access. Don't forget that! Keep your fingers crossed! #WSAYI25 #innovators
https://t.co/JVigWspbHf
0
0
5
Cassava is such a profitable crop to venture into especially with proper budget and it can be processed into High-quality cassava flour (HQCF), bioethanol, starch and sweeteners which has a large global market size. If only we can take it serious and look beyond garri and fufu.
Cassava is drought-tolerant, grows in poor soils & provides food + income security. From flour, starch, animal feed to biofuel — its market keeps expanding. With proper management, 1 hectare can yield 15–20 tons, turning small farms into profitable agribusiness ventures.
0
1
9
Meet Nigeria's Queen of Cassava, Oluyemisi Iranloye has established Africa's largest cassava processing factory in Nigeria. It operates 8,000 hectares and a network of 6,000 farmers. Its factory produces 35,000 tones of starch and cassava flour per year. It is important to
73
572
2K
While this I quite impressive, all I see is low quality cassava product which is exactly why cassava has been receiving the backlashes in recent time. There could have been glove for processing things people eat. More than 3 people using hands throughout the processing line.
This is the process of making cassava bread, a staple food in Nigeria.
0
1
4
@HerbalistChief Cassava leaves are rich in protein, iron, carbohydrates, calcium, flavonoids, starch, saponins, vitamins B and C, cyanogenic glycosides, and folate, making them one of Africa’s underrated superfoods. They support blood health, boost immunity, and aid fatigue recovery. Natural
2
6
33
@bestieval12 @Kene_Nnewi And what informed this your conclusion? The fact that you live in a region where the only product known of cassava are garri and fufu (or akpu). Don't you know of starch, HQCF, bioethanol, sweeteners and now bioplastics like @na_wrap from this same cassava? Blame not the crop!
0
1
4
Nigeria doesn't feature in the global trade of it. Yet, we feature in global production data for it. How does that brings us into wealth? We need to start working on making sure this root crop is converted to our source of wealth, and not just waste. @yucachain is the answer.
I once asked if Nigeria can earn $50B from agricultural exports , yes She can , all it takes is focus . Let’s use Cassava as our case study . Producing 63million tons and accounting for almost a quarter of Global production , Nigeria doesn’t feature in the global trade of it
0
1
3
This is a woman of great honor and value Pushing forth the work that's require to bridge the gap that's keeping this crop from being the industrial powerhouse it was destined to be. We produce in large numbers, why are we not winning with it. Broken fragmented value chain 🔗
Nigeria 🇳🇬 (Africa): the queen of cassava Oluyemisi Iranloye has established Africa's largest cassava processing factory in Nigeria. It operates 8,000 hectares and a network of 6,000 farmers. Its factory produces 35,000 tonnes of starch and cassava flour per year. It is
0
0
2
It is quite sad that even as Nigeria produces cassava in large quantities, more than any country at all in the whole world, we still are yet to meet even local production demands. We also, as a country, largely import cassava derivatives, spending over a trillion naira annually.
0
0
4
@irikefe_ogaga Sadly enough, everyone has said one or two but to add, not just Thailand but every single country in the world, Nigeria produces more cassava that every one of them We contribute nothing less than 20% to the world cassava market. But what to show for it? Absolutely nothing.
0
1
4
Better funding for local agricultural research institutions, that's the way forward, really. We need enough funds to go around to support and develop the cassava value chain. We need more of amazing companies spearheading development in this area, like @agbeyewa. #cassava
Agree 100% - but IITA and NRCRI are both in Nigeria and they are key to the Cassava Value Chain. This might be different for other crops - but the way forward is to insist on better funding for local agricultural research institutions. That should be the focus.
0
0
4
...on imports of cassava derivatives. These are products we can make ourselves, such as high quality cassava flour (HQCF), sweeteners, bioethanol and starch. Where lies the problem, farm to market disintegration of market, before it gets to the final stage of the chain.
0
0
4