Cassava (or Yuca) at OMV

Today, Leyli came to the house with this yuca root in hand, to show me what will grow here with virtually no maintenance (beyond the work of digging it up).

I had been asking him about what we would need to grow yuca (cassava) as a biofuel crop — e.g. water, fertilizer, planting, pruning, harvesting, etc.  He says ‘nothing’. This is an example.  As it happens, while clearing the slope above the tilapia pond a few months ago, the guys pulled out some plants, but left part of a yuca root. This is what grew from it a few months later — in lousy red clay soil with no watering, no fertilizing, pruning or maintenance. This is great news for my Waste to Energy Center biogas digester — an example of a perfect fuel crop?

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