Opportunity International in Nicaragua (OIN) employs a field-to- market strategy that provides over a thousand rural smallholder farmers with access to loans, technical assistance and market-driven business solutions for their crops. OIN has built a Yucca (Cassava) processing plant in Granada, Nicaragua to purchase crops from farmers around the region, thereby ensuring raw material. The processing plant is equipped to produce Tapioca starch and tapioca residue (powder)