Cassava As a Field Business Potential

Cassava is a crop of the people who can say other than rice a staple food by the people of Indonesia. Not only the tubers are to be used or consumed, but the leaves, bark and trunk can also be utilized. When you can manage it properly, it could be this is a lucrative business opportunity for you.Cassava tubers in demand in almost every area of ​​the country, cassava tuber also known as a staple food in certain areas. In some areas, cassava (Manihot utilissima) is known by various names, such as sweet Kayee (Aceh), kasapen (Sunda), tela pohong (Java), tela belada (Madura), lame wood (Makassar), Pangala (Papua), and others. Cassava plant is very easy to grow. Plants originating from tropical America is widely planted in the yard, dikes, or rice. How to plant this crop, it can be done with old cassava stem cuttings.

According to a medicinal plant expert, Prof. Hembing Wijayakusuma, pharmacological effects of cassava is as an antioxidant, anticancer, antitumor, and increase appetite. Common part used in this plant is the leaves and tubers. For cassava tuber itself, in calories, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and C, and starch. Cassava leaves contain vitamins A, B1 and C, calcium, calories, phosphorus, protein, fat, carbohydrate, and iron. While the bark contains tannin, peroxidase, glycosides, and calcium oxalate.

Potential of cassava plants are very diverse and rich certainly will benefit. When used as snacks can be processed into chips, snacks, vegetables, tape, cake, pudding, bread or a variety of other delicious dishes. It also has various properties as a drug. Among rheumatic drugs, headache, fever, wounds, diarrhea, intestinal worms, dysentery, night blindness, beri-beri and can increase stamina. Even cassava or cassava can also be made of cassava flour is tapioca flour that can be used to replace wheat flour, because flour is good for allergy sufferers.

So many benefits from cassava, in any processing not too difficult. Cassava is easily grown and very easy to obtain. This is what we can make the potential of cassava as a promising business field. A wide assortment of preparations of cassava are now many we met with varied shapes and flavors but also healthy. Like:

1.Chips cassava
2.Brownies
3.Ice cream
4.Gatot
5.Tiwul
6.Tape
7.Various kinds of cake
8.Mocaf or modification of cassava