An Appraisal of Utilization Level of Screw Press Technology among Gari Producers in Kwara State, Nigeria

Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from one of the highest rates of food insecurity and has one of the lowest levels of agricultural technology utilization [1]. In other words, despite decades of investment in agricultural innovations, hunger and poverty have continued to afflict Africa, specifically sub-Saharan Africa where use of improved agricultural technologies is low and their effects less apparent [2,3]. For instance, most of the improved rice postharvest technologies have not been adopted and utilized by stakeholders in the rice postharvest sector in Nigeria [4]. Similar to Arimi and Adekoya [4], FAO and IFAD [5] maintained that despite the rapid growth in cassava production, the cassava subsector is constrained by inadequate access and low utilization of improved processing technologies.