The
Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Thursday said that Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) would play major role in the newly drafted standards for
cassava products in the country.
Dr
Joseph Odumodu, the Director General of SON, said this in Lagos at the
conclusion of the work of a technical
committee set to up to elaborate and review standards of cassava products.
“It
was not the first time SON is elaborating standards on cassava products. It was
just a combination of review and elaboration of new ones,” he said.
Odumodu,
who was represented by Mr Louis Njoku, Head of Laboratory in SON, said that
cassava had been adopted by the African Union as one of its focal crops.
He
said that standardisation of cassava bread was on the agenda of the African
Regional Organisation for Standardisation Agenda.
“The
benefits of our deliberations today go beyond Nigeria and will
