Of all the crops that I've cultivated, guinea corn has been the easiest by a country mile; most of the work comes at harvest time, making it a low-maintenance yet rewarding crop to cultivate.

At that time, I am done with every other farming work, solely focusing and giving it all my energy. Before planting, we most times cultivate ridges for the guinea corn. What we mostly use are the ridges where maize has been harvested in late July or late August.

To prevent late planting problems, we would plant the guinea corn inside the maize that's about to be harvested since they both thrive alongside each other without much stress.

Once planted, it gets very little attention beyond the occasional weeding, ensuring it gets moisture. The weeding isn't actually done to make the farm very neat based on how we do it here; especially if the Guinea corn is already way taller than the grass around it, what we do is that we make use of our hoe to weed the grass around it only.

It is resilient to drought and pests once the plant has grown to a certain level where the roots of the plant are already deeply rooted to the ground.

The real effort begins when the 🌾 grains mature; it involves three important stages: the first one is cutting the stalks, then we dry the heads, and then we thresh to separate the grain 🌾 from the heads that are dry already at that point. It demands time and labor, but then it is worth all the time and labor spent on it because of how much harvest we can make from just a small field.

If you are a farmer looking for a crop with minimal supervision but a good return, then you should consider cultivating guinea corn even if it is the usual once-a-year cultivation that we do.

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