Agriculture and Environment: Cassava

Introduction

For most producers, cassava is an ancillary crop, for example, it is not often the main crop being produced but rather a sequence crop that is grown in association with others.

Consequently, it allows producers the possibility of gaining a little more production of either food or marketable crop from an area that would otherwise be allowed to return to fallow.

As a result, the most effective conservation strategies are those that are aimed at the primary agricultural crops that are causing the environmental problems that need to be addressed. Even so, there are at least two strategies that can be pursued with regard to cassava.