Ethanol plant design company ICM, Inc. of Colwich, Kansas has designed and constructed equipment for a “one gallon per minute ethanol plant” currently under construction in Mozambique that will use locally grown cassava as a feedstock. The project is part of CleanStar Mozambique, a company founded by Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures to protect forests, produce food, deliver energy, [...]
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ICM Designs Cassava Ethanol Plant in Mozambique – Domestic Fuel
Posted by Agro2 on October 14th, 2011
Posted in Ethanol and Sustainability 
Tags: cassava, Designs, Domestic, ethanol, fuel, Mozambique, News, plant 
No Comments »Cassava in the News: A plant of last resort – Chicago Tribune
Posted by Agro2 on October 2nd, 2011
A plant of last resort Chicago Tribune Cassava roots look a little like potatoes, and just as those starchy brown tubers succumbed to disease during the Irish famine of the 1840s, blight has devastated the fields of Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The Horn of Africa depends on cassava as a …
Posted in Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: cassava, Chicago, last, News, plant, resort, Tribune No Comments »Danforth Plant Science Center gets $12 million more for cassava research
Posted by Agro2 on September 6th, 2011
PhysOrg.com (press release) Danforth Plant Science Center gets $ 12 million more for cassava research Bizjournals.com Cassava serves as the primary food source for more than 750 million people each day and is an important source of local income for small farmers across much of Africa, Asia and Latin America but the plant is susceptible [...]
Biogas engines to power China’s largest ethanol plant – Power-Gen Worldwide
Posted by Agro2 on April 18th, 2011
Biogas engines to power China’s largest ethanol plant Power-Gen Worldwide Owned by Henan Tianguan Group, the new ethanol production plant will produce 500 000 m3 of biogas per day, based on organic material from cassava plants. A 36 MW on-site power plant based on Jenbacher engines is being built in multiple phases to … and [...]
Rwanda: New cassava flour plant to give farmers a ready market
Posted by Agro2 on April 16th, 2011
How we made it in Africa Rwanda: New cassava flour plant to give farmers a ready market How we made it in Africa A new Rwf5 billion (US$ 8.4 million) cassava flour processing plant in Rwanda will provide farmers with a ready market for their produce. The new cassava flour processing plant will provide farmers [...]
Tapioca comes from root of cassava plant
Posted by Agro2 on March 17th, 2011
Tapioca comes from root of cassava plant Victoria Advocate After weeks of being lost, he knew his chance of survival was dimming, so he decided he would eat manihot esculenta, the root of the cassava plant, which he knew would be fatal because of the cyanide-based toxin in the root. He took the plant, …
Jamaica company building 250-tonne cassava plant
Posted by Agro2 on February 4th, 2011
(Jamaica Observer) JP Tropical Foods Limited (JP) will in March launch a new cassava processing facility that should produce up to 5,000 kilogrammes (five tonnes) of bammies and other cassava products per week. Rolf Simmonds, commercial director at JP told the Business Observer that the facility, located in Chocolate Walk, Annotto Bay, St Mary is [...]
Agro2 Plantation from Above
Posted by Agro2 on November 19th, 2010
This is the home of Agro2‘s “Finca La Vecina” cassava plantation and test garden, also known as its Moestuin, the dutch word for “garden.” This will also be the future site of the Agro2 ethanol and flour plant, and is currently the site of Agro2′s waxed cassava and peeled cassava processing plants. This week we [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava/Yuca Tags: Agro2's, cassava, ethanol, flour, peeled, plant, processing, sustainable, waxed No Comments »Agro2′s Brazil Trip: At the Halotek Fadel Cassava Starch Plant
Posted by Agro2 on October 28th, 2010
The plant, which has been family-owned for three generations, is the largest in Brazil with a production capacity of 800 tons of fresh cassava roots per day and 200 tons of starch per day. The plant works with about 170 employees and 2,000 farmers in the region, which Mr. Fadel, or “Mr. Manioca” calls “one [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava/Yuca Tags: agro2, Brazil, cassava, clayuca, farmers, fresh, manioca, plant, prodcuers, producers, sustainable No Comments »Agro2 Heads to Brazil, Capital of Cassava
Posted by Agro2 on September 23rd, 2010
Last week Agro2 founder Frans van Hulle accompanied other CLAYUCA members to Brazil to tour a variety of cassava growing and processing facilities. Pictures from the journey our now on the Agro2/PlusTrees FlickR account. Brazil is the native home of the cassava plant and represents a monumental market in many forms that include ethanol, tapioca [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News, Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: agro2, Brazil, cassava, clayuca, ethanol, flour, fresh, plant, processing, products, starch, tapioca 3 Comments »
