Based on FAO Food Balance Sheets 1964 – 1968 cassava can fulfill the need of calorie 90 of calorie needed by people in Central Africa. In Indonesia it happens in
Gunungkidul and Pegunungan Kapur Utara.
4.1.5. As food material.
In Malaysia people had tried experiments to cassava for food material since 1930. in 1957 Oyenuga and Opeke had done the research for cassava as food material.
Indonesia and Thailand exported cassava to MEE. The demand of cassava from MEE increased because of Common Agricultural
Policy in MEE. The price of cassava is lower than cereal. So they like to use it in choosing it as food material. They can make food having good quality with cheap price.
There are 3 kinds of cassava products namely, “gaplek”, ‘chips” and “pellet”. The last is the easiest to carry and to take care.
4.1.6. As industry material.
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n has been known in Egypt since 4000 years BC. This is very important in food industry, glue industry, textile, paper, sweet, glucose, dextrose, high
fructose syrup HFS. Indonesia exports cassava in the form of dried cassava gaplek, flour and tapioca.
Dried cassava from Indonesia is very famous especially in Europe. The farmers like to grow cassava so the product of it increases. In West Java, for example Tasik,
Purwakarta, Sumedang, Cianjur, Ciamis, Sukabumi, Garut people like to grow it. They can get profit about Rp. 2.500.000,-h.a after 5-6 months. It was also done by farmers in
South Sulawesi. They grow cassava by choosing superior seeds, for examples, “Manggi” from Brazil, it produce 16 tonsha, “Valenca” from Brazil, it can produce 20 tonsha, “
Basiorao” from Brazil, it can produce 30 tonsha, “Muara” from Bogor is 30 tonsha “Bogor” from Bogor is 40 tonsha.
Now we have superior cassava like “Malang 1”, it can produce 45 to 49 tonsha; “Malang 2” can produce 34 to 35 tonsha. I hope Indonesia will be a superior country in
exporting cassava.
Table. 2 Cassava products can be Indonesia main stay commodity. Adapted from Kompas, Wednesday, September 25, 2002; page 30; written by UNUS
SURIAWIRA; Biotechnology and Agro-industry, ITB. Peeled, Cooked + Yeast
WASTE
Other product Peeled, dried
Cooked + Yeast CASSAVA
FERMENTED CASSAVA TAPE
DRIED CASSAVA
GAPLEK
CITRIC ACID
FLOUR COMMODITY EXPORT
FLOUR TAPIOCA
Scrapped Pressed
Settled
Fermented + Yeast
Simple Process Liquid sugar
Pharmaceutical Product Fermented process
4.2. NAMES OF FOOD MADE OF CASSAVA
