How to harvest and process cassava to Garri

How to harvest and process cassava to Garri – Learn all the tips on how you can harvest and process your cassava, and also how you can easily market your finished product to the general public.
Garri is one of the most consumed foods in Africa, some people mix garri with water and salt and drink, while other use boiled water to make it after soup preparation. The process involved in getting dry garri is what I will be discussing now. Cassava processing involve 7 steps, I will discuss all the steps on after the other.
1. Harvesting of cassava: This process involves the use of hand or cutlass to uproot the cassava from the ground, this is the first steps that will lead one to the last step.
2. Cutting of the cassava: After harvesting the cassava, this process involves the cutting or pilling the back of the cassava. This process needs to be done with extra care, if proper care is not applied while cutting your cassava, you may end up leaving some of the back of the cassava. 3. Washing of the cassava tubers: This process involves the sanitation of cassava; you are to use clean water when washing your cassava.
4. Bagging of the cassava: After washing your cassava the next thing you will need to do is to bag your cassava. Bagging of cassava can be done with big Baco bag, rice bag etc. You will need to bag your cassava well so as to enable you pack more inside a bag. If you have your own grinding machine you, you don’t need to bag your cassava, just put in a big basin and proceed to the next steps.
5. Grinding of cassava: After the washing and bagging is being done properly, grind your cassava and proceed to the next steps.
6. Drain off water from grinded cassava: Use wood or bag the grinded garri and hang it till day break.
7. Extract the chaff and fly: Extract the chaf and fly your cassava to get your garri.

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