Technology assessment of small and medium cassava starch enterprises in North Vietnam

The cassava starch processing supply chain in Vietnam has rapidly changed over the past decade. The introduction of high yielding cassava varieties (KM 94, KM 60) with high starch content for industrial purposes has led to a complex situation, where both small and large scale producers have to tackle the burgeoning environmental issues. Three categories of small-sized wet starch extraction systems were identified in a cluster of root processing...