Barbados is set to make to a multi-million-dollar investment to drive the production of cassava flour. Construction of a cassava flour mill will get underway in another six months. According to the chief executive officer of the state-owned Barbados Agricultural and Development Marketing Corporation, planning permission has already been attained for the construction of the plant which is expected to cost near quarter of a million dollars. The mill is projected to produce a tonne of cassava flour a day.
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