Arrowroot Uses

ARROWROOT (ARARO)

The arrowroot, aroot crop, grows in any kind of soil, but it prefers a somewhatshaded area such as that under the coconut trees, and whererainfall is even the whole year round. Its roots can withstandtyphoon and may be left in the ground for a long time. Itwill grow from any small piece of its root crop left in thesoil.

Arrowroot is readyto harvest ten months after planting. In ordinary soil, itcan harvest about 18 tons per hectare. However, it was proventhat if the soil is fertilized with 90 kilos nitrogen perhectare, the harvest can go up as high as 18 tons per hectare.When the fertilizer was doubled, the harvest reached 27 tonsper hectare.

Uses of the arrowrootplant

The arrowroot isused as food for both man and animal and as materials in themanufacture of medicines as well as industry, such as:

1. flour from arrowrootis used for baking first class biscuits.

2. for thickeningice cream.

3. like corn, itmay be broiled and eaten.

4. as poultry feed,it can be substitute for 25% yellow corn.

5. its item, leavesand wastes are feed for ruminants (cow, goats, carabao).

from: GREENFIELDAUGUST 1990