THE SOUTH EAST REPORT OF THE REGIONAL AWARENESS/
SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP
On Bio-Economy, Employment And Inclusive Growth Using Cassava-Bioethanol Value Chain Development Programme Pilot Held At Toscana Hotel, Enugu State On 2oth June 2023
The South-east Regional Sensitization workshop was organized as a follow-up to the National Sensitization Workshop and as well as the National Stakeholder Implementation workshop earlier organized by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning as part of awareness creation aimed at driving more inclusive partnership among the identied critical stakeholders for the implementation of the Nigeria Bio-Economy Programme. The South-east regional Workshop is part of the implementation arrangements for the Cassava Bio-Ethanol Project pilot designed to leverage cassava to produce Bioethanol and other cassava derivatives including Industrial Starch, Pharmaceutical, Starch, Chips, sorbitol Animal feeds and Ethanol. The sensitization workshop had participants from the five (5) Southeastern States Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo respectively with players from Top Government Functionaries, the Agribusiness sector, Academia including representatives o f G o v e r n m e n t M i n i s t r i e s , Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Cassava Farmers from all the five(5) states were in attendance.