The Easiest Way To Plant And Harvest Cassava

Planting and harvesting of Cassava is very easy, and there are some important factors you need to take, please follow the instruction below properly.

When To Plant Cassava
You can plant Cassava in the raining season as fact that rain is still dropping you can still plant Cassava. The best season for planting Cassava is between the month of March to October.

The first thing you need to do to Plant Cassava is to get a land: land is the first thing to consider, you can get a land anywhere but not all the land are suitable for planting Cassava, if you plant Cassava on a land that they have been using to farm every year or using to farm every time it will not bring out the best results but if you plant it on a virgin land or a land that have not been used for a long time it will bring out the best result. You can also plant it on a land that have not been constantly used up to three times without space. Even though you plant something on the land for the past two years you also plant your Cassava, its not bad.


Don't plant your Cassava on a hard land; hard land mean rocky land, stony land etc. rather plant on the soft land eg the river side and any other normal land you will see the result you never imagined. One of the mistake that people do is that they plant their Cassava on a strong land, which will not give the root to freely expand, so the output of the farm will be very small. If you fine a soft land, that is the best place to Plant Cassava. Even though the land is no longer a virgin or have been using to farm any other crops for many years, it will bring out a wonderful result.

Another step is to get a Cassava stems: it's the Cassava stems that you are going to be planting on the land, try and get the fresh and thick one, the thick one happen to bring out the best results. when you get the stems split them between twenty to twenty five cm Note: handle the stem properly when cutting to avoid bruises and damages from the nodes. Determine how you are going to use the land. If you are going to Plant other crops on the land increase the spacing to give the other crops allowance and also for the root to expand properly.

Start Planting Your Cassava: you can start Planting Your Cassava in your farm, you can plant it in both horizontal and vertical, if your land is soft you can plant it vertical because the vertical aspect will go deep to the ground you find it difficult to harvest on a strong land.
Apply Fertilizer; if you apply Fertilizer your plant will bring out an extraordinary results.


How To Harvest Cassava
You can harvest your Cassava after one year, it takes up to one year for Cassava to mature properly. You can leave it up to 2 to 3 years if you want it to mature very well. To harvest your Cassava hold any part of the stem and pull it out, note when harvesting a Cassava go along with cutlass and hoe in case one may be hook on the ground use cutlass or hoe to pull it out. Cult the Cassava from the stem and arrange them properly.