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Let's date in Namibia
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Let's date in Namibia
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Since 1997, a government farm in Namibia has been laying the foundation for southern Africa s first commercial date production enterprise. Now 10,000 date palms, managed by 50 farmers, and free of major pests and diseases, drip-irrigated and thriving well in the sandy soil of southern Namibia, prove that the country is well-suited for growing the fruit. With State and FAO support, the Namibia Development Corporation now provides 500 date palm offshoots annually to subsistence farmers, and training for extension workers.
Since 1997, a government farm in Namibia has been laying the foundation for southern Africa s first commercial date production enterprise. Now 10,000 date palms, managed by 50 farmers, and free of major pests and diseases, drip-irrigated and... |
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2002
2014-10-16T09:12:07Z 2014-10-16T09:12:07Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 2002. Let's date in Namibia. Spore 101. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47696 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99605 |
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en
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Spore 101
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Copyrighted; all rights reserved
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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