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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/africas-land-and-forest-restoration-initiative-gathers-pace-in-malawi/>
"In front of his rural home in the district of Thyolo in southern Malawi,
Douglas Tana grows maize on a tenth of a hectare, or a quarter acre. Before
2010, he used to harvest at most 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of the grain, a
staple crop in Malawi, during years of good rains and after applying a combined
25 kg (55 lbs) of nitrogen and phosphorous inorganic fertilizer.
“Put simply, in the bigger picture, it was a thankless effort … And I had no
faint idea that there was a way to produce more from this piece of land. So, I
was resigned to the idea that 250 kgs was the maximum I could get,” he told
Mongabay.
However, that story of low-yield frustration changed in 2010 when the World
Agroforestry Centre (known by the acronym ICRAF) introduced small-scale
farmers, like Tana, to conservation agriculture and intercropping their maize
with soil-improving trees.
Tana was one of the 75 farmers who put the methods into practice. The results
are clear today."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
