In Vietnam, cassava is the crop occupying the third area and productivity after rice and maize. The planted area is about 424 thousand hectares. This is a long-standing traditional crop for tubers as food for humans, cattle and the cassava processing industry for domestic use and export.
Planting area
In the North of Vietnam, about 68% of the land is hilly land for cassava. Cassava is grown mainly in midland and mountainous areas. About 89% of cassava in the North of Vietnam is grown on the aforementioned soils In the south of Vietnam, most of the cassava is grown on sandy soils in the Central Coast and South East regions . Cassava growing regions in the Central Highlands provinces have similar topography.