One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is how to preserve some of its Agricultural produce for future consumption.
But the Umueze Anam community in Anambra West Council Area has a creative traditional method of preserving their cassava produce for as long as one year.
ABS Staff reporter, Oggorchukwu Oranu crossed over the Omambala River to Umueze_Anam where she discovered the ingenuity of the women cassava processors in food storage.
One of the farmers, Mrs. Anuri Obiano told the ABS that the cassava harvested last year in large quantities are peeled and packed in big nylon bags, wrapped with rice bags or sacks and then buried under the ground.
Mrs. Obiano further explained that they have to dig deep into the ground before burying the cassava and covering it with sand to prevent flood from penetrating and damaging the cassava.
She disclosed that over fifty bags from her last year’s harvest are stored beneath the soil and gradually dug up, washed thoroughly at the bank of the river and transported to Otuocha or Ose market, Onitsha for sale.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chukwu from the same community, said they sell each bag of cassava for about three thousand naira, adding that the money they make from cassava sales sustain their families.
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