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Table 5-4 Number of Plants Required to Meet
Estimated Demand
Scale of Operation
Market Small Medium Large World
Food for urban 96 969 - - -
Food for rural 29 992 - - -
Food for export 12 500 - - -
Food as flour 12 823 - - -
Livestock chips 4 623 2 312 - -
Livestock pellets - - 39 12
Starch 4 589 - - 92
Ethanol 1 145 57 29 2
For the supply-chain to develop and survive there
is a need to get the members of the supply chain
to work together to assure that production,
collection, delivery and processing activities are
scheduled to work together. If key components of
supply are ahead or behind schedule it is quite
possible that the supply chain will fail.
The number of small and medium processing
plants is great and will likely be scattered across
the country. The estimate for large and world
scale processing plants is more manageable to
fathom and it is for these plants that the following
selection criteria was formulated.
5.3 NEW INITIATIVES
Suggesting the best production locations or best
locations to set up a plant is a difficult task and the
answer will change depending on the objectives
and situations facing the person, persons or
institution desiring to know the best location. A
number of conditions are necessary for selecting
production and/or processing areas. The main
one being proximity to the user.
Owing to data limitations, recommendations on
the best site must be primarily limited to state
recommendations. An approach is suggested
which can be modified and adapted to different
levels of aggregation.
It is suggested that the selection of best cassava
production sites are not necessarily the best sites
for production. However, owing to the bulkiness of
cassava and the need, at times, to process freshly
harvested cassava, the distance between
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production and processing sites may become a
critical decision factor.
The selection approach demonstrated is based on
selected data contained in the Handbook. The
selected data are considered to be indicators of
the suitability of each state as a cassava
production or processing site. Individuals can
select their preferred indicators.
For this study the following Table contains the
indicators and the measures that were considered
positive for production and processing sites.
Table 5-5 Site Selection Variables and Related
Indicators
Production Positive
Indicator
Processing
Positive
Indicator
Population
Density
Low, MLow
Cassava
Root Price