 Wow! That's amazing!
Corn “test plots” planted in northern Pakistan by TEAM agricultural advisers have yielded harvests 10 times greater than fields sown and cultivated in the traditional method for the area.
The traditional method is to simply broadcast seed by hand over a plot of ground and then plow it under. Local Pakistani farmers watched with obvious skepticism as TEAM advisers invested what appeared to be excessive time and effort in the planting process, placing seeds in neat rows, nine and a half inches apart and two and a half inches deep.
But eyebrows were raised again, this time in amazement, when the harvest results came in. In the traditionally sown field, 33 kilograms of seed produced a yield of 510 pounds of corn per acre. In the test plot next door, where only two and a half kilos of seed were planted in rows, the yield was 5,474 pounds per acre.
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 Journal of an American follower of Christ living among the Afghans... IDP increase due to fighting The summer of 2008 has seen an increase of internally displaced people, particularly in Wardak Province where there is fighting between the locals and nomads over land rights. Many homes have been burned and scores killed. Thousands have fled, often to the homes of relatives who do not have the resources to care for extra people. War ruins everything, even Islam, and its hallmarks of Muslim brotherhood and hospitality. |
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