Pre-germinated seeds or seedlings are directly planted in soil or broadcast in flooded field under this technology. Rice cultivation is responsible for 10% of GHG emissions from agriculture. In developing countries, the share of rice in GHG emissions from agriculture is even higher, e.g., it was 16% in 1994.
Local name of practice: Singa Koula
Country/region/village: Chad/Logone Occidental/Mbalkaba
Community: Ngambaye
Country/region/village: Niger/Tondikiwindi/Darey
Community: Darey
A farmer from Loga standing close to one of the shrubs naturally assisted with millet cropping system.
A woman from the Tagaza community looking after the Moringa trees grown within the zaï pits.
A herder from the Tillabéry region standing in front of his fodder storage
Climate changes have made agriculture a difficult proposition for small farmers in rain-fed and marginal lands while available arable land is decreasing every year. Agricultural crops and vegetables that can thrive in conditions of drought high salinity high-temperature or heavy metal contamination will go a long way in addressing the world’s food needs.
Hybrid rice variety offers high yield good adaptability and resistance to pests and can increase yield to over 20 percent more than that of conventional rice. Hybrid rice variety supporting plantation technology can improve both yield and efficiency.
The presence of lead kills most bacteria making it impossible to bioremediate soil contaminated with lead. This bacterium is able t o survive and bioconcentrate lead on or in its membrane which probably allows it to survive as well as to remove lead from contaminated soils The use of a bacteria for on-site remediation of soils by accessing the soil to a bioreactor with encapsulated bacterium that can be separated later to the soils or using a membrane to immobilize the bacterium. This is a soil organism which will survive in the soil at pHs of soils (around 4).