THE HARVEST AND PROCESSING OF CASSAVA #3

This write up will mark the concluding part of my post on the harvest and processing of cassava.

In the last two weeks I have been talking about how I harvest some cassava on my farm and also the little process have done so far with the peeling and soaking. It's not an easy task anyways one has to exercise alot of patience and it also requires some effort in its processing to either cassava flour or fufu.
Thanks to my grandma and my siblings for helping me out so as to make this a success.

After soaking it for some days the next thing is to pound it alittle so it will be easy to grind using the grinding machine and for us to also get the one we will be using for fufu. Firstly, we started by washing the floor because we will need to pour the cassava on the ground so as to make it easy to pound with pestle, we can equally use sacks but I don't have access to that at the moment. After pounding we proceed to the next stage which is sieving, the part that is sieved from the main cassava will be used for fufu while the other will serve as cassava flour (elubo).

Moving forward we proceed to packing the cassava into a sack and then spreading it out again so it can get dried, so to make the cassava get dry enough for grinding is really frustrating due to the rainy season we need to keep spreading it day by day as the rain would not allow it to get dried on time... so it took longer than usual but at last in less than a week it got dried enough to be grinded.

Pardon me I couldn't share the end result of what the fufu looks like I was too carried away with excitement as the food was too delicious with vegetable and Egusi soup. Nevertheless I'll share what the cassava flour looks like after grinding, the picture is uploaded below 👇👇

In conclusion, even as the process is so tasking and stressful it worth the stress actually for someone like me that loves fufu and Amala. And comparing what we spent in getting the cassava flour (elubo) in shape like this and to the current price of elubo in the market, the difference is really clear. The only money we spent was the money for grinding which cost only #500 less than $1. So again I would say that the subsistence agriculture am practising here is really worth it and has also helped me and my family to get some things easily without having to spend a whole lot of money.
I love agriculture! Happy homesteading.

Note: All pictures uploaded are mine, took them with my phone camera.