According to new research by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture), southeast Asia’s multi-billion dollar cassava industry and thousands of small scale farmers could be severely threatened by global warming which might trigger outbreaks of new invasive pests.
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Climate change threatens southeast Asia’s billion dollar cassava industry
Posted by Agro2 on April 17th, 2012
Posted in Cassava News, Cassava/Yuca, Ethanol and Sustainability 
Tags: cassava, climate change, farmers, Farming, market, pests, processing, production, research, root, southeast asia, starch, sustainable, tapioca, yuca 
No Comments »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 »Powering Ethanol Production from Cassava in Central Panama
Posted by Agro2 on October 27th, 2010
Recently Agro2 has been analyzing potential feed stocks to fire its ethanol-from-cassava production, while continuing to pursue its pledge to be a sustainable operation. We set out to analyze the possibility of using waste wood, growing our own wood and integrating agroforestry techniques, and obtaining waste products like rice husks and sugar bagasse. We have [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: agro2, agroforestry, biogas, cassava, central, ethanol, Panama, renewable, sustainable 1 Comment »Agro2 Reaches Out to Farmers to Produce Cassava
Posted by Agro2 on October 4th, 2010
Last week was a busy one for Agro2–we completed our building that will be our central training facility and cassava processing center, and received approval from the Ministry of Health to begin producing yuca for sale. In addition Ywe Hanken of FACT Foundation visited the site and made several helpful recommendations on how to proceed [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News Tags: agro2, cassava, ethanol, farmers, Panama, processing, sustainable, yuca No Comments »Agro2 Pioneers Ethanol from Cassava in Panama
Posted by Agro2 on September 15th, 2010
Panamanian Company Receives Dutch Funds for Research and Development of Ethanol Plant SANTIAGO, PANAMA –Agro2 announces it will be the first company to research and produce ethanol from cassava in Panama, thanks to funding from FACT Foundation and the Global Sustainable Biomass Fund of NL Agency, a division of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs [...]
Posted in Agro2 Updates, Cassava News, Ethanol and Sustainability Tags: agro2, cassava, development, ethanol, Panama, research, sustainable 1 Comment »
