Starting a Cassava Farm

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Table I: Site description and history Site description t

Vegetation cover Scanty Dense natunl fallow Dense improved fallow

Pests, diseases, and weeds

-+-Cassava pests in I I I I

I

I Soil texture

I

I I I I

Sandy

I

Loamy

Clayey Soil fertility Poor Good

Topography

Cassava diseases in the locality i I Cassava mosaic disease

I [

Hilly/steep slopes

I I I

Depression area

I I

Flat

I Previous crop Cassava

Yam Sweecpotato Rice Maize

Sorghum Cowpea/legumes Other (specify)

L

II

the locality

Cassava green mite Cassava meatybug Variegated grasshopper Spiraling whitefly Cassava root scale Termites White scale insects Vertebrates Other (specify)

Cassava bacterial blight Cassava anthracnose disease Cassava .bud necrosis Root rots Leaf spots Other (specify)

Common weeds in the locality Spear grass I I Bermuda grass I I

I I 1I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

Guinea grass Feathery pennisetum Sedges Siam weed

Giant sensitive weed

Wild poinsettia Tridax Goat weed Parasitic weeds Other (speCify)

For Site description. tick (+) appropriate boxes. For pests, diseASes and weeds. indicate importance of the problem as: + =- not serious ++ =- serious +++ =- very serious

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