Tropical Zone Gardening: New to Forum, 0 by njdaniel

njdaniel wrote:
Another site I work in. In the initial stages.... you can see many onion nursery beds. Cashew trees surrounding the area plus a river in the background. It is in the very beginning stages.

For watering the nursery bed, women get water from the river.

The grass/hay on see on the bottom right of the photo is what the women use to cover the newly seeded beds. It creates a greenhouse effect that speeds up germination.

In smaller beds, often people use old cotton clothing to achieve the same effect.

This is all being funded by a spanish NGO. My job more or less is to give technical advice and introduce new techniques and crops.