Handbook on rural technologies for food processing and storage of African tubers and cereals

Abstract

The key crops produced for domestic consumption are millet and sorghum in the. Sudan and Sahalian countries> maize in East and Southern Africa’s rice in Madagascar and parts of West Africa roots and tubers (cassava yams and sweet potatoes) mainly in the forest zone of West and Central Africa’s and pulses (cow-peas-, in particular) throughout Africa, Important oil seeds are ground, nuts and palm oil.