(Addis Tribune-Ethiopia) Nahum Finkelstein - Prof. Dov Pasternak from Ben-Gurion University has formed a unique partnership with vegetable farmer Issaka Dandakoye from Niamey, Niger, in developing a horticultural production system called the African Market Garden (AMG) for farmers with small parcels of land. Using gravity drip irrigation, the AMG concept has proven its success in one of the poorest countries in a beleaguered continent faced with grinding poverty and lack of food security. The yield and quality of the produce of the AMGs is markedly higher, and the revenue at least four times that given by traditional farming methods - a single farmer working a one-eighth acre lot can earn $4,000 per annum in a country where the per capita GDP is $800.
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