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A Tanzanian farmer's sorghum success story
Anchila, a subsistence farmer from Mwagala village in Tanzania, was struggling to feed her 7 children with their sorghum crop due to poor yield. In 2005 she became involved in a sorghum research programme with The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture,Tanzania (DRD). She received training on sorghum crop husbandry such as planting, spacing, weed control, variety selection criteria and microdosing fertilizer application.
A Tanzanian farmer's sorghum success story
Anchila, a subsistence farmer from Mwagala village in Tanzania, was struggling to feed her 7 children with their sorghum crop due to poor yield. In 2005 she became involved in a sorghum research programme with The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture,Tanzania (DRD). She received training on sorghum crop husbandry such as planting, spacing, weed control, variety selection criteria and microdosing fertilizer application.