NAREI explores mechanical harvesting for cassava

The National Agricultural Research and  Extension Institute’s Mechanical Harvesting machine (GINA photo)

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is exploring means of enhancing cassava cultivation and mechanical harvesting for it.

Mechanical harvesters are being used to cultivate and harvest cassava at NAREI’s Kairuni Horticulture Station, as part of the experiment, GINA said.

NAREI’s Research Assistant, Premdat Beecham told GINA, “This equipment was brought from Brazil; we use these to do cassava planting along with fertilising. It is based on the functioning of the types. Land has to be