Smyth’s Creek gets cassava mill

Almost 200 residents of the small riverine community of Smyth’s Creek in the Mabaruma sub-district, Region One will benefit from a cassava mill supplied by the government, GINA said.

Delivering the mill to the residents on Tuesday, during her visit to the region, Minister in the Ministry of Communities Dawn Hastings- Williams asked that it be used to benefit all the residents.

The community had requested the equipment on a prior visit of a government team from the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs since they had planned to up their cassava production.

When cassava chips from the feeding hopper pass through the milling cylinder, a fast rotating hammer will hit the chips at a very high speed of about 31 meters per second, breaking the chips into several pieces until its size is sufficient enough to pass through the screen, GINA said.