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Image number: 143
Feature : tea plantation
Grouping : cash crops & industrial crops
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1975
Locality : Kibati
Country : Rwanda
Region - tribe : Cyangugu
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : The start of a tea plantation often causes high soil erosion, because the original vegetation is taken away and because the young tea bushes are unable to adequately protect the soil. But with the development of the tea trees, the soil becomes stabilzed.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1975    Image 143.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"