- The Nigerian Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria (NCGA) on Wednesday said it would partner with the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) to establish an ethanol plant.
- The National President of the Association, Mr Segun Adewumi, said that the plant would also serve as a bio-energy and power generation plant in ten states.
- The EAIF is an international private infrastructure financier founded by the governments of UK, Sweden, Netherlands and Switzerland.
- Adewumi said that to achieve that, the association would acquire 6,000 hectares of farmland in all the designated states for the cassava project.