Hello Hive

Good morning beautiful souls in the community I hope that we are hale and hearty and happy to witness another weekend. The weekend is usually the most busy moments for us and today is not an exception. There is a lot to be done in the farm and at home as well.

I remember how I was lamenting yesterday about how long it takes for yams to be planted, to grow and before they eventually produce some food for us to eat. That 8 month is such a lengthy time for me and because of this yams are not often available for us to eat during the most months of the year. Even though they are available at the market, the process varies as the tubers gets crazily expensive when it is not in season.

We only eat yams during the periods of yam harvest when it is in season. Such are the times when the tubers become a bit affordable for us to eat.

Here is another tuber crops that takes after yam in growth pattern and equally takes a whole length of time for it to grow and reach maturity. Before now cassava takes about 2-3years for its own life cycle. We never stopped planting Cassava even when it has to take 3years to reach maturity because it has some benefit over yams. Cassava tubers unlike yams can be processed into several other different kind of food products. We make Cassava flour, garri, Fufu, eba and others from cassava alone. Yams can only be eating or processed into a single type of food product known as the yam flour.

Cassava with the many other food products that can be processed from it gives us more value than Yams even though yams seems to have more nutritional value than cassava. The different product made from cassava can be preserves and uses for years giving it more advantages and preference over yams.

The life cycle/maturity phase for cassava have equally be reduced using scientific and engineering methods such that we do not have to wait for 3years before we can harvest cassava. We have the species that now grows to full maturity within one year and such are the kind of specie we grow in our farms now.

Healthy nutritional benefits is present with yams while cassava seems to have functions and profitable for commercial purpose.
If you have planted your cassava soon as the rains began in the month of April they should have grown up to the level of the ones we have here.

We majorly grow yams for the purpose of consumption as not much profit comes from growing yam tubers but the smallest cassava field can produce tubers that can be processed and sold to give us more gain. If you have planted your cassava early enough such as when the rains stated, they ought to have grown to the level of the ones we have here.