Mitigating The Challenges With Harnessing Cassava Dry Season Opportunities
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This page is a single promotional post by one author advocating for dry-season cassava harvesting and processing. The author details the economic advantages of dry-season production, such as higher yields and better quality, while listing specific operational challenges like hard soil and increased labor costs. The post is truncated and contains no engagement, replies, or discussion from other users.
Prices:
cassava tuber: kg2.5 (dry season (December/January))cassava tuber: kg3.0 (raining season (March/April))garri: bags10.0 (dry season (2.7 tons of tubers))garri: bags9.0 (raining season (2.7 tons of tubers))wet fufu: bags65.0 (dry season)wet fufu: bags40.0 (raining season)wet fufu: bags45.0 (raining season)cassava harvest cost: percent35.0 (dry season premium)cassava harvest cost: percent50.0 (dry season premium)
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cites specific yield data and weight metricsdetails operational challenges with percentages
“Cassava commands more value in the dry season than the raining season either as being sold as raw tubers or finished products.”
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“a stand of cassava plant that weigh 2.5 kg in that dry season of December may command more market value than same stand that eventually weigh 3kg at the onset of raining season.”
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“the soil is intensely hardened, which make uprooting very difficult, tedious and laborious, consequently causing wastages of up to 10% - 15% tubers lost to breakages in the soil.”
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