Abstract
This article examined the consumption pattern of households for cassava food products (gari, cassava flour, and fufu) and their substitutes (semovita and yam flour) for the periods before and after the implementation of the Cassava exportation policy using the Almost Ideal Demand System. Data were collected using structured questionnaires administered on 218 households in Ibadan North Local Government Area. The analytical techniques used include descriptive and almost ideal demand system (AIDS), from where own and cross price elasticities were calculated before and after the exportation.The mean budget shares of households for cassava food products decreased after the export policy whereas those of their substitutes increased after it. From the result of the computed own price elasticities, the cassava food products were seen to be more price-elastic after the exportation than before it, and the result of the computed cross-price elasticities shows higher values for the substitutes of cassava food product...
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