ALCOFORD

Long description

The lack of markets for cassava due to processing problems negatively affects thousands of women and farmers in rural areas who live mainly from these crops on less than $2 a day in TOGO. Usually burned, post-harvest losses and waste are not valorized while the country imports about 22million liters of ethanol and more than 900million liters worth more than $1 billion on the ECOWAS–market.

The Startup operates in Yoto rural-community. A village of less than 30,000 very poor inhabitants who live mainly from subsistence farming and cassava facing serious climatic-challenges. They still use wood for cooking accelerating deforestation and pollution.

These multiple challenges are tackled by our startup by processing cassava and post-harvest losses into ethanol through intervention of multilevel distillation technology helping smallholder-farmers earn-better. We link companies which need ethanol to our business model by gathering smallholder-farmers in cassava value-chain by processing their crops and offer extension services to help them increase both the quality and quantity to produce ethanol for various uses mainly denatured for medical purposes and dehydrated as anhydrous ethanol very useful for improved cookstoves helping reduce GHG.

OUR PRODUCTS FEATURES MADE FROM CASSAVA GROWN CONJOINTLY WITH SMALLHOLDER-FARMERS ARE:

• 96%ETHANOL”: (Is made from fermentation and distillation of cassava-starch and post-harvest losses)
• DENATURED ETHANOL 96% is made by adding denaturant thereby making it unfit for potable use.
• CASSAVA FLOUR AND LIVESTOCK FEED
• DEHYDRATED ETHANOL: The continuity of our production-line allows us to dehydrate ethanol up to 99.99%  for clean-cooking for improved-cookstoves.

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