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Tuber crops are very good staples in many diets around with tuber crops like yam, potatoes and cassava forming the most popular trio, these tubers are high in essential nutrients the size of the means that we get more food per plant compared to grains .

The size of tubers is hugely influenced by rainfall and in this blog post I would like to explain how good rainfall affects the size of tuber crops and why the supply of water has to be balanced.

the importance of water to tubers .

Water has a huge benefit to plant life and not just tubers alone water serves as a good foundation for growth with steady supply of water most likely playing a crucial role in maintaining the overall moisture content of the soil allowing the expansion of the tubers that are under the ground with out any obstacle when water is available plants experience rigorous growths and it is the opposite when the water supply is not good enough.

The tubers enjoy better nutrients uptake when the water supply is steady, more nutrients dissolve into the soil at a quicker rate facilitating the absorption of these nutrients.

The environment becomes perfect when the soil is well hydrated allowing the tubers to expand freely which produces larger tubers that are more uniform, overall water is needed for photosynthesis which is an important process in plant life.

Excessive rainfall on the other hand causes tubers to rot so though steady rainfall is needed for these tubers to thrive the rainfall must not be excessive to prevent the tubers from rot.

It is now a big challenge for farmers to manage the water level .

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