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Acacia in Sudan
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Acacia in Sudan
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Sudan is the most important of the gum arabic producing countries, with 80% of the market. The Sudanese farmer grows millet for five years on his field and then plants gum trees. These help to refertilize the land as the gum tree is leguminous and fixes atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. This fallow period lasts about 15 years during which the farmer gets a profit from his land by harvesting the gum, and at the same time puts fertility back into his soil. At the end of the period when the trees are no longer productive, millet can be grown again for five or six years. A further advantage of this system is that gum can be collected during the dry season when other agricultural activity is minimal.
Sudan is the most important of the gum arabic producing countries, with 80% of the market. The Sudanese farmer grows millet for five years on his field and then plants gum trees. These help to refertilize the land as the gum tree is leguminous and... |
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1990
2014-10-08T13:16:06Z 2014-10-08T13:16:06Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1990. Acacia in Sudan. Spore 25. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45206 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta25e/ |
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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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