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Japan to develop Mozambican savanna with Brazil
By African Bulletin on March 15, 2010
The Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA), has announced a plan to develop a savanna in Mozambique together with the Brazilian government.
The project is to develop 5.5 million hectares of savanna in Mozambique, an area almost one and a half times larger than Japan. Only 2 million hectares of the savanna are being used as farmland.
Brazil succeeded in turning a vast savanna known as Cerrado into farmland. Cerrado is very similar to Mozambique’s savanna.
JICA and the agricultural research institute of the Brazilian government will start research around October on what crops are suitable and how the soil can be improved. JICA says it wants to expand this approach in Africa.