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Wetlands for food
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Wetlands for food
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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The vast 200 million hectares of wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa represent a great potential for food production if effectively utilized, says a report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria. According to Dr. F.R Moorman, a soil scientist from the Netherlands, and Dr. A.S.R. Juo, the Director of IlTA's farming systems programme African farmers are by tradition and choice dryland farmers. They prefer well-drained upland to hydromorphic areas (wetlands) for food crop production. The scientists argue that the use of wetlands for intensive rice production in tropical Africa will require a basic change in the existing farming systems of mixed cropping and traditional gathering of forest products. A study carried out in some West African countries indicates that the sub-Saharan wetlands can support largescale production of crops, such as rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, maize, cowpea and vegetables. According to the IITA report, irrigation projects in Africa are in their infancy and this situation should evolve from the present marginal and unstable rain-fed rice cultivation to intensive lowland or paddy production. The vast 200 million hectares of wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa represent a great potential for food production if effectively utilized, says a report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria. According to... |
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1986
2014-10-02T13:13:10Z 2014-10-02T13:13:10Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1986. Wetlands for food. Spore 4. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44505 |
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en
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Spore
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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