Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 5 percent of farmland is irrigated. Here, farm extension worker Phelire Nhkoma shows off a simple water-storage tank that’s being used to irrigate a vegetable plot in central Malawi. Sophisticated irrigation schemes require government support, which in most parts of Africa is still lacking. So Nkhoma teaches farmers low-cost methods, like carrying buckets of water into the field and spooning the liquid directly onto their plants.
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