Botanical name: Manihot spp
VARIETIES
Sweet cassava. M. palmata
Bitter cassava. M. Utilisima
LAND PREPARATION
1. Clearing
2. Stumping
3. Ploughing
4. Harrowing
5. Ridging
PESTS
1 Grasshopper
2 Sheep
3 Goat
4 Rodents
5 Green spidermite
6 Mealy-bug
CONTROL
1 use of traps
2 early planting
3 spray cassava cutting with Basudin 60EC
DISEASES
1. Leaf blight
2. Cassava mosaic
3. Leaf spot
CONTROL
1. Plant resistant varieties
2. Remove and destroy infected plant
3. Crop rotation
4. Farm sanitation
5. Use of healthy stem cuttings
