Cassava Cultivation: Planting to Harvest
Cassava Cultivation: Planting to Harvest . Learn everything you need to know about growing cassava, from selecting disease-free planting material to harvesting high-yield tubers in cassava farming. This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of cassava cultivation agriculture information. CASSAVA (Manihot spp.) Local Names. Yor. Ege; Ibo-Akpu; Hausa-Rogo. General. It is an important food crop grown throughout Nigeria but only in recent years in the more northern provinces. It is replacing yams to some extent in the south owing to ease of cultivation and ability to crop in poor soils. It has considerable resistance to drought. The "root" is used for human food and may be utilized as "garri" by grating, fermentation, and frying; or fermentation of the whole root, pounding, and extraction of starch. Sweet varieties may be boiled or roasted without fermentation and types of agriculture. Varieties. Four main species are cultivated in agriculture fa...