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Image number: 1558
Feature : raised bed cultivation
Grouping : soil and water conservation
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1996
Locality : Dimbal
Country : Mali
Region - tribe : Bandiagara
Physiographic region : W-African Savanna belt
Notice : Technique of earth bunds along contours against rill and gully formation and enhancing infiltration of water into the soil. The raised bunds keep the roots of maize and other cereals above the with water saturated ground during heavy rain storms.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1996    Image 1558.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"