For many years Bahia-Brasil has a highlighted cassava production and the Southwest region of this state is one of the major producer. In 2003 and 2004, Cândido Sales county was the major producer in the state of Bahia and the second higher producer in Brasil. However, its productivity as well as the production from others counties in that region is low. There are many causes for that low performace and can be difficult to be detected, mainly, when the production system ensue local characteristics. With the purpose to diagnosis the soil management cultivated with cassava in thirteen counties in southwest Bahia's region, 848 questionaires were used during the first semester of 2005 in the following counties: "Vitória da Conquista", "Barra do Choça", "Planalto", "Poções", "Ribeirão do Largo", "Encruzilhada", "Cândido Sales", "Belo Campo", "Tremedal", "Piripá", "Condeúba", "Anagé", and "Caraíbas". The sampling was take in each one of counties, with datas about information soil management and liming of the soil manure. The data were under simple frequency analysis. It was observed low adoption soil preservation thecnologies, lime and manure, prevailing in counties the soil preparation manual.
Manihot esculenta Crantz; soil preparation; soil preservation; liming; manure
