CBN-V Video Archives - S1-06
Cassava Production and Utilization in Vietnam

Huu Duong

Post Harvest Technology Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam

        For more than twenty years, cassava production has tended to the decline in Vietnam. In the past, cassava was grown as a staple food crop for direct human consumption. But now, on the contrary, a significant proportion of production is destined as a raw material for the production of starch, maltose and dry chips for animal feed. Thanks to the traditional starch technique, the processing cassava products is mechanizing effectively.

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