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Fertile land is an expensive commodity in most parts of the world with the industrial movements taking over lands in countries where there are no laws to protect our farm lands so we farmers make the most of the ones that we've got using the sustainable system of farming like intercropping plants to maximize land use.

There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of harvesting your own crops especially crops like maize and cassava, maize is a very versatile crop, it is easy to grow, and could be used in different ways whether you're are going to roast it, grinding it's dry kernels into flour, or saving the seeds for the next planting season. Cassava on the other hand has a hardy nature which makes it a resilient crop that survives so many things that other homesteading crops would normally not survive it is good for maximizing our gardens and farms with good level of calories that we can get from using the crop to make different meals like the local Nigerian food fufu.

Maize and cassava in my farm

Maize and cassava are two crops that we can intercrop so well that the two crops hardly even affect each other as long as the land is fertile.

The maize is to be planted in between the cassava plants with the space between each cassava been equal to the space between each maize plants which makes everything perfect also maize is a tall crop that doesn't exactly have very broad branches that will prevent sunlight from getting to the cassava and the maize is shorter than the maize on most occasions which makes it easy to intercrop this two plants .

The time it takes for the two crops to produce also makes it easy while cassava takes way longer than maize depending on the variety we would have harvested the maize before the cassava as long as the two crops where planted at the time that means that harvesting won't be at the same time preventing the work from affecting us and the weeding effective to both plants so we weed once or twice which in any other point in time it would have been twice or more on different farm lands.

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