Seedlings with the clod press – Bala, Senegal

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The Ivory Foundation has made available a clod press at the Bala center that is used to make compact blocks of soil for seedlings that require larger cups. With seeds from the seed project’s partner, Agrosemens, Abdourahmane and Aurélien, on a mission for the foundation, use the press for sowing cucumbers, zucchini and corn.

To make the clods, the first step, it is important to moisten the soil well so that the earth is sufficiently compact, the clods thus made are collected in reusable plastic crates. This is an ecological method that avoids the use of fragile cups or alveoli that do not resist in the long term. A small hole is made by the tool in the center of each clod where the seed will be put.


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