Welcome to Conservation Agriculture in Sudan
This Website is meant to be a starting guide for Conservation Agriculture. It focuses on Sudan and other regions in Africa and the rest of World with similar conditions and challenges.Conservation Agriculture is a low impact, highly efficient method to cultivate crops. It is used all over the world and every year more acreage is allocated to this system.
The method has economical and ecological advantages against classical high input farming practices.
For thousands of years the soil has been worked only on the surface, due to lack of "suitable" machinery. With the intensified agriculture of the 20th century, the quality of the soil started to decrease rapidly. The signs of this degradation are lower yields, lower humus content, erosion and even desertification. The corrective action that followed – spraying artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides – didn’t really solve the problem. In some cases it got even worse, including lower yields and income for the farmers.
Based on these experiences, together with new scientific results, a new method was developed and this new technique of agriculture has been successfully established. It treats the soil as living system and not only as the mechanical platform for the roots.
The soils of Sudan and the climate with its wet and dry periods allow Conservation Agriculture to show its full potential, even better than in moderate climates.
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Project Partners
- Upper Nile University, Renk, Sudan
