The study analysed the cassava value chain in Imo State, Nigeria with the view of identifying and examining the functions of the Value Chain Actors (VCAs), their constraining factors, the relevance and adequacy of government policies and institutional frameworks. A multiple sampling technique was employed in the selection of 130 VCAs in the three Agricultural zones of Imo State, namely; Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe. Descriptive statistics, functional analyses of the VCAs were employed in the methodology. Results showed that of the four VCAs, namely; major input suppliers (1^st Stage), producers (famers) and traders (marketers), the major input suppliers (i.e. cassava stem suppliers), were not visible as a business entity in the registered ADP farmers used in the study. These constituted the weak link in the value chain and its implications. The farmers/producers perform this function of supplying the stems in addition to their natural role of producing cassava tubers thereby distorting the gains of specialization. The results also showed that the VCAs were mainly small-scale operators, going by any of these categorization; be it farm size (<1ha), weight to tonnage of products (<1MT), turnover (<1 million Naira) or employment (less than five persons). The major constraining factors of the Cassava VCAs were inadequate credit facilities, high cost of labour, massive theft of the field unharvested products, high cost of fertilizers, poor and unpassable road network, feeble government policies and institutional frameworks and the implementation concerns. The study further highlighted the limited number of products of the VCAs and most of them are for domestic products, whereas the export potentials of the products are enormous and were not deliberately harnessed. Critical to the situation is the limited number processing among the cassava VCAs, the fulcrum of value addition. It was therefore recommended that the export market of the VCAs should be strengthened, by the government in providing export incentive, proper quality assurance and in packaging of products, importation and local development of machines, and spare parts crucial to the VCAs. Finally, to strengthen the input supply stage would require considerable in research of cassava seeds to harvest the numerous benefits associated with it.