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Image number: | 1634 |
Feature : | onion garden |
Grouping : | cash crops & industrial crops |
Discipline : | agriculture |
Year : | 1997 |
Locality : | Ounjougou |
Country : | Mali |
Region - tribe : | Bandiagara - Dogon |
Physiographic region : | W-African Savanna belt |
Notice : | Onion gardens are established by putting some earth on bare rocks: here te case of a small garden on Bandiagara sandstone outcrops. Onions are grown for export to Burkina Faso and other regions. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1997 Image 1634. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |