Cassava Stems: Best planted during the raining season 🌧️

Cassava, is a starchy food, under the classes of carbohydrates which is an energy given food. Cassava is a very common food here in Nigeria. It can be use for cassava flakes, which is popularly known as garri. Cassava flakes with honey, milk and fried peanut, is good for consumption. It can also be use for swallow which is popularly known as Eba. Eba is taken with any kind of soup. Cassava can also be boiled just as yam, and can be eaten with any sauce of your choice.

To prepare the land for planting cassava stems, the land has to be cleared neatly, it's good to apply chemicals like herbicides to reduce the weeds in the farm before planting. The best time to plant cassava stem is during raining season. The Gestation period of cassava is longer, It mostly takes six months to a year to be harvested. Most farmers harvest during dry season which is the best. I'm planning to harvest mine in November when the rain is finally over.

Propagating cassava, is a bit easier because all we need is cassava stems from a fresh cassava plant. what's needed, is that the small part of the stem, is to be placed to the soil directly in an horizontal way. Some part of the stem are meant to be in the ground, while some outside.

It's not all cassava stems that is due for cutting, it has to be mature, so it will have the capacity to regrow but an immature stem dies easily from the soil.

I planted cassava stem in April, at our farm land. With the help of the rain especially from last month, my cassava is growing so well. Seeing it from the leaves makes me feel joyful.