Cassava is a versatile crop
Anyone who takes the trouble to cross the Sukhumvit Road from Jomtien, for example, will be surprised by the beautiful landscape that unfolds there. A beautiful hilly landscape with height differences of up to 100 meters.
Agriculture is practiced in this beautiful area. One of the crops is cassava. When the soil has been made (agricultural) ready for construction, a number of people come to do the planting. I was amazed to see this happen.
Bare (cassava) sticks are cut into pieces of about 50 cm with a cleaver. divided. Then they are neatly put into the ground along a string, that's all! After a few weeks, the first green leaves appear. Now the fields are completely green, sometimes with heights of 1 meter.
The cassava plant (3000 BC) originally came from South America, but is now also grown in Africa and Asia and has become one of the most important foodstuffs after rice. Initially only the root was used. This can be processed in various ways: boiling, baking, frying, steaming and grilling.
Flour is also made from it: tapioca flour. This one is gluten free unlike wheat flour. The cassava is also used for making Thai prawn crackers by Go-Tan and prawn crackers by Conimex.
Rheumatic patients seem to benefit from boiling 100 grams of leaves with 15 grams of ginger root and 1 lemon stalk. Apply this mixture twice a day to the rheumatoid area. A versatile crop that grows in my immediate vicinity.
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My wife has 12 Rai land for rice, but unfortunately due to the drought of recent years or little rain, the harvest has already failed 2 times.
She has now had cassava planted must say a beautiful sight planting those rows just like that, one stem in the ground and let it grow while it's not even the rain season it grows like cabbage (cassava).
Also see around the fields that many have switched from rice to cassava because there is really nothing to earn with the rice harvest that fails, here in the Isaan.
Sales are not a problem nearby is a factory that makes flour from it.
Hi Louis,
Cassava is what the Dutch East Indies turn into tapeh
It is fermented and tastes very special, and in Indonesia
Is it available at any store?
In Amsterdam it is also for sale at a shop as far as I know,
But I'm probably not allowed to mention the name?.?.
If there is no cassava for sale, you can also use fermented rice
Being made also tastes good, waiting ten days
With the pan in a dark cool place until fermented,
Tasty bite.
Dear Pilot,
Thanks for the tip. Too bad (just kidding) that I live in Thailand, otherwise I would definitely buy it at the Albert Cuyp market in Amsterdam in one of the side streets at such a shop.
fri. regards,
Lodewijk
Are you sure that the Go-Tan and Conimex “Thai coconut prawn crackers” come from Thailand? see https://www.conimex.nl/producten/kroepoek/kroepoek-thai-kokos-75-gr/
I don't think any Thai prawn crackers supplier has an EU approval to supply shrimp products to the EU.
AH is also allowed on its website https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi170890/ah-thaise-kroepoek-curry so Thai… speaking, the package says Red Curry.
Go-Tan also talks about Thai cassava, but http://www.go-tanprofessional.nl/assortiment/kroepoek-70g/ the prawn crackers from Indonesia.
So I like to be recommended for better information.
Cassava is also used to make recyclable cups, sachets and medicine capsules. A large company that does this very professionally and has done a lot of research by Thai engineers with training at the University of Ghent, that company is located on the extension of Sukhumvitroad past On Nhut in a street on the left. It is still a long way from On Nhut, that's all I can remember.