“…The medium is locally available and cheap in cost. Though cassava peel which is an abundant agro waste in the processing of cassava to various products has been used in several biotechnological processes to produce enzymes (Sani et al, 1992;Lateef et al, 2008;, bio-oil (Ki et al, 2013), carriers for biofertilizer production (Ogbo and Odo, 2011), bio-ethanol (Sivamani and Baskar, 2015), and animal feeds (Olafadehan et al, 2011;Ruqayyah et al, 2014), there is limited utilization/evaluation of the waste for the production of citric acid (Ogunka-Nnoka et al, 2011).…”