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1975, William R. Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 86,
The banana, the most important crop above ground, quarreled with the manioc, the most important underground crop.The manioc said that it, the yam, the sweet potato, and others were the ones that fed people and that without them people could not exist.
1977, Donald W. Lathrap, Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd, Charles A. Reed (editor), Origins of Agriculture, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 741,
The selection process leading to the bitter group of maniocs has been in terms of higher starch yield and in terms of starch of a quality more appropriate for making bread ans flour.
1988, Robert L. Carneiro, “5: Indians of the Amazonian Rainforest”, in Julie Sloan Denslow, Christine Padoch, editors, People of the Tropical Rain Forest, University of California Press, page 82:
Manioc, the main subsistence crop of Amazonia, is planted entirely from cuttings, which are inserted into mounds hoed up in the spaces left between the logs and the stumps.
1993, Jonathan D. Sauer, Historical Geography of Crop Plants: A Select Roster, CRC Press, page 60:
Manioc was first reported being grown on the mainland in 1635 at the Portuguese post at Bissau.
Manioc gives the highest yield of starch per hectare of any known crop; some 90% of the fabric of the crop can be regarded as potentially fermentable carbohydrate.
In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc - we had to be economical of our stores - we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.
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