Raining season usually comes with good things for planting of crops as they need water to germinate and grow.
Because of the rainy season, I cultivated and planted cassava. This is actually the best time to plant all kinds of crops.
Starting from the cassava, the one I planted last year which I recently harvested germinated and produced a very big tubbers of cassava. People who saw me harvested the tubers of cassava were all happy for me because there's high cost of Garri and whoever that has a cassava farm to harvest big tubers is seen as a rich farmer. I was also happy for myself but when I processed the cassava tubers everything about it was water. This shows that the tubers of the cassava I planted was not a good one because it can only be big to the eye but when harvested and processed it'll turn to be small by given only small of Garri.
So this year's cassava planting I didn't want to make such a mistake I made last year by planting only a cassava stems that can only produces a big tuber and when processed for Garri it'll be no where to be found. It's better to plant a cassava stems that produces small tubers and when harvested they'll account for bassins of Garri.
So after I cultivated my farmland, I wanted to plant a good cassava stems. In search of it, I went to the market where farmers gathers to sale the stems. Thou in my place a farmer can enter another person's cassava farmland and harvest a cassava stems from the farm without paying anything to the owner. It's allowed but the person who harvested the cassava stems is not allowed to sale it out for money. Because I don't want any kind of complaint from such people because they're people you'll harvest cassava stems from their farm they may claim you have damage something from their farm.
When I searched the whole market for a good cassava stems which I can plant this year, I couldn't see the one I wanted to see but before I left the market I was convinced over a particular cassava stems which I later bought and planted in my new farmland. It's believed that the cassava stems produce will be fine. The color of this cassava tubers which I recently planted is usually yellow in color. In my village we call the cassava stems as Egburu Poli. The cassava if harvest and processed for Garri is believed to be helpful to diabetic patients because it doesn't contain starch like other Garri. Because of its yellow colored and no starch when frying after processing, no oil is needed for it.
So, today I went to see the cassava farm I planted days ago, I was that they have all started growing. This shows me a sign of good cassava stems planted. I'm hopping that the cassava stems produce is going to benefit me this time than the last year. All I'm waiting for is a short time before I can weed to remove the unwanted plants from the cassava farmland.
