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Illustration of livestock using homemade salt lick |
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| Description |
ECHO reports: Eddie Visser in Guatemala wrote, "While transplanting citrus and leucaena seedlings into the ground, the soil would sometimes crumble off, leaving the roots of the transplant exposed. When this happened we dipped the roots into a mud solution, so that the mud adhered to the roots. Almost all the transplants we did this to are still living. The ones we did not do this to died."
Timothy Volk with MCC in Nigeria later wrote, "I recently was on a study tour in Togo and saw villagers doing the same thing. However, rather than using mud alone, they also mix in some cow manure and sand. We were able to see that the seedlings (leucaena mostly) did not dry out during the day and that seedlings planted earlier were doing very well despite a poor rainy season. In addition the manure provides a small amount of nutrients to promote early root growth." |
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Agriculture |
| Other Purposes
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Agriculture |
| Climate |
Dry/Arid, Temperate, Tropical |
| Emphasis |
Communities, Individuals, Industries |
| Effort to Implement
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Simple |
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| Why |
This technique helps transplants survive the trauma successfully |
| URL(s) |
http://www.dsimb.inserm.fr/~debrevern/OTHER_PB/611_blocks.html
http://www.echotech.org/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=257&Itemid=282
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