How to Make Flour from Cassava

This is a simple guide how to make flour from Cassava. CASSAVA (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) is one of the most important cash crops in Thailand and Philippines. It is planted in about 1.2 million hectares, producing 17.7 million mt each year in Thailand. About 50-60% of this production serves as a raw material for cassava chips and pellets. These are exported to be mixed into livestock feeds, mainly to the European Common Market and some countries in Asia.

However, the price of cassava products is unstable, depending on the market demand each year. One way of solving this problem is to add value to them cassava through diversified usage, especially industrial utilization and human consumption. Processing cassava flour for human food is one solution to the problem of unstable prices for cassava products.

How to Make Flour from Cassava

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