Most cassava content online is written from a desk. Mine comes from the field. This is where I document actual harvests, processing batches, and farm decisions from my own land in Ntigha, Abia State, as they really happen.
My Cassava Projects is where I step away from general guides and document my own farm as it runs, season by season.
I am Chimeremeze Emeh, a cassava farmer from Ntigha, Isiala Ngwa North LGA, Abia State, with over thirty years of experience.
Every post here covers something real: a harvest from one of my plots, a batch of garri as I process it, a pest problem as I handle it, or a conversation with fellow farmers.
Nothing in this category is theoretical.
It comes from clearing bush, forming mounds, planting stems, weeding, and digging tubers myself. Browse the projects below to follow my cassava journey.
Table of Contents
Why I Document My Farm This Way
Most content on this site teaches general principles: how to plant, how to weed, how to process.
This category works differently, showing what those principles actually look like on one working farm, in one specific place, through one specific season.
When I write about weeding strategy in a guide, I am drawing on decades of pattern.
When I write here, I am telling you what happened on a particular Tuesday, on a particular plot, with a particular variety.
Both have value, but they are not the same thing, and I think readers deserve to know which one they are getting.
Harvests and Field Work
Two posts in this category follow cassava from the ground up, literally.
My cassava harvest walks through a single harvest of a traditional variety near my home.
It covers what the roots looked like coming out of the ground and what that told me about the season.
The community angle shows up in 15 Cassava Farmers in Ntigha Wanted to Quit in 2023.
There, I documented what happened when fifteen households harvested their crop only to face collapsed prices and brutal transport costs to Lagos, Benue, and Ogun.
Processing in Real Time
Growing cassava is only half the work, and this category tracks the other half too.
Processing My June 2026 Harvest into Garri, and what I learned documents turning a traditional variety into garri, batch by batch.
It includes the small judgment calls that never make it into a general processing guide.
These posts sit alongside our evergreen cassava processing guides, but they show one specific run rather than the general method.
Community and Culture
Not every project post centers on a single harvest or batch, as shown in Cassava, My Town’s Favorite Crop.
There, I write about what cassava actually means in my part of Eastern Nigeria, as the crop behind daily meals, tradition, and family livelihoods across generations.
What to Expect Going Forward
This category grows as my farming calendar moves forward, not on a fixed publishing schedule.
Expect new entries around planting, weeding, pest pressure, harvest, and processing as each season brings them.
If a post in another category references something I did on my own farm, there is a good chance the full story lives here.
For the general, evergreen version of the practices behind these projects, our Cultivation and Growing Cassava guides cover the underlying methods in full.
Conclusion
My Cassava Projects exists because general advice only goes so far, and sometimes the most useful thing is seeing exactly what happened on one real farm.
Every harvest, processing batch, and community story here comes from my own land and my own decisions in Ntigha, Abia State.
New entries follow the actual rhythm of the farming calendar rather than a content schedule.
If you want to understand cassava farming from the inside rather than from a textbook, start with the posts linked above.
Follow along as I add each new project to this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes My Cassava Projects different from your other categories?
Other categories teach general principles for any farmer. This category documents specific, dated events from my own farm in Ntigha as they actually happened.
How frequently do you add new project posts?
New posts follow my farming calendar rather than a fixed schedule, so expect entries around planting, weeding, harvest, and processing each season.
Is this category based on research or personal experience?
Every post here comes directly from my own farm and processing work in Abia State, not from outside research or secondhand reporting.
Where can I find the general farming guides behind these projects?
Our evergreen Cultivation and Growing Cassava guides cover the underlying methods and principles behind the specific events documented in this category.