Better Farming Series 15 - Cereals (FAO - INADES, 1977, 51 p.): Other cereals: Wheat

Better Farming Series 15 - Cereals (FAO - INADES, 1977, 51 p.)

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Preface

What are food crops?

(introduction...)

What cereals are grown in Africa?

Why cereals are grown

Why we should produce and sell more cereals

Traditional cereal growing

Growing cereals in the modern way

Clearing land and grubbing out trees

Conserving and improving the soil

Applying manure and fertilizers

Preparing the soil

Selecting and preparing seeds

Sowing in rows

How to look after cereals

Harvesting

Selling part of the harvest

Sorghum and millet

(introduction...)

Sorghum

Millet

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How to grow sorghum and millet

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Growing sorghum in the dry season

Sorghum for animal feeding

Maize

(introduction...)

Traditional maize growing

How to increase maize yields

Other cereals

Fonio

Finger millet

Wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal that is chiefly grown in cold countries. Flour is made from wheat and is used for making bread. In Africa, especially in towns, people eat more and more bread. Until now, African countries bought wheat or wheat flour from foreign countries. But that is costly. It is better, when possible, to produce the wheat needed for food.

In Africa, wheat is grown in regions where there is a very cold season, that is:

· on the edge of the desert, near rivers and lakes:
· in Mauritania and Senegal, along the Senegal river; in Mali and Niger, along the Niger river;
· in Chad, near Lake Chad;
· in mountainous and hilly regions such as:
· eastern Zaire;
· Rwanda and Burundi.

Some countries, such as Chad, are making a great effort to develop wheat growing. This is being done chiefly in the Lake Chad region which will soon be able to meet all the ccuntry's needs of wheat. Chad will no longer have to import wheat.