What Do You Know About Cassava ?

2016-11-07

Cassava is one of the world's three major tube roots, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions. In south China, cassava is the fifth largest crop after rice, sweet potato, sugar cane and maize. It plays an important role in crop layout, feed production, industrial applications, etc. and has become the main processing starch and feed crop widely grown.
 
Cassava edible, feed, industrial and comprehensive utilization in the continuous development of in-depth. As food, there are 800 million people in the world to cassava-based staple food, an average of one in seven people to eat cassava mainly to live. As a feed, cassava meal can replace all the grains, as a high-energy feed. Cassava leaves can be used for green fodder, but also dried powder for the protein composition of feed. Stems can be paper or fuel. Industrial cassava is mainly used for the extraction of starch with cassava starch production line.cassava starch can be pulp, alcohol, fructose, glucose, MSG, plastic fibers, plastic film, coatings and adhesives.