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Paraguay. Except for some grass beside the highway in the lower part of the photo, we see here the jack bean’s ability to control weeds. Tens of thousands of farmers in Paraguay use this cassava/jack bean system in order to both double the harvests of their cassava without the cost of fertilizers and eliminate both the second and third of the three weedings they previously had to do every year.
