30 Nov 2017 Beneficiaries Story

Community in need of presser and slicer for processing gari

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The community in Adaklu produces and cooks cassava (gari) for their own consumption and for sale. They cook the gari and sell it as a processed product. They have been using traditional cook stoves until SAG introduced more efficient community stoves emitting less smoke.

This has resulted in better quality gari while making smoke-related diseases are a thing of the past. Notably, the cooking time has also significantly reduced.

With these improvements, some of the challenges they still have include the absence of a presser and slicer. The presser used is time consuming and very inefficient. The slicer comes on a request basis.