From farm to pharmacy
At a glance
A planned facility to turn locally grown cassava into pharmaceutical-grade starch and related ingredients, linking the region’s farmers to medicine-making on the campus.
- On the campus
- On the Medical City campus; the location is to be confirmed.
- Why here
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing on the campus needs consistent, local ingredients; cassava is grown widely across the region.
- Workstreams
- Feasibility and product selection · Farmer supply programme · Process and quality partner · Regulatory pathway
- Partners
- Agro-processing investors, farmers and pharmaceutical buyers: co-invest in processing, bring quality and process expertise, and help organise farmer supply.