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| Image number: | 1620 |
| Feature : | reservoir |
| Grouping : | cash crops & industrial crops |
| Discipline : | agriculture |
| Year : | 1997 |
| Locality : | Bandiagara |
| Country : | Mali |
| Region - tribe : | Bandiagara Plateau |
| Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
| Notice : | Irrigation by carrying water from the reservoir to the fields, arranged in micro-basins in chessboard pattern. In the region onions are grown for export to Burkina Faso. Stone bund for soil and water conservation. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1997 Image 1620. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |