Alcoford Corporation Distillery SAS Converting cassava and post-harvest-losses into ethanol.

Our initiative improving food-system by building an innovative block farming program to enhance smallholder farmers’ livelihoods to increase farm productivity and decrease post-harvest lost in cassava value chain and encourage youth in town to back to their parents’ cultivable lands to valorize them for cassava food production to mitigate extreme poverty and solve unemployment issues.

The Startup aims to connect all stakeholders in cassava farming activities on a win-win business model with the mission of ensuring the self-sufficiency of medical alcohol needs of the sub-region with the best quality/price ratio by providing market access and technical assistance to disadvantaged smallholder-farmers to produce improved cassava which are transformed to ethanol, cassava flour , gari, livestock feed and energy from waste in the same process-line to supply a large market that we’ve gain since the project’ inception.