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Vegetable

Broccoli

📍 Burundi

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

1 2 3 4 5
Sow Harvest
Sow
Jan – Dec
Harvest
Jan – Dec
Growing period
100 days
Seeding rate
0.4 - 0.6 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Broccoli grows in Burundi

hill mountain

Region high altitudes

Located around the Congo-Nile between cotgreforts of Mumirwa and the central highlands. Altitude: 1750-2600 m, vegetation mountain ranges of eragostris constituted by the Congo-Nile. Sources of many rivers in the Congo Basin in the western part and the Nile Basin in the eastern part. Soils: Hygroxéroferrasols, hygroxéferrisols and leached average fertility. Pluviomotrie: 1800-2000 mm / year Temperature: 15-19 ° C. 2 to 3 months of dry season (July-September).

hill mountain

Regions Central Highlands

central region extending from North to South of the country between the high mountains and depressions of the East. Altitude: 1400-1800 m, steep terrain with many swamps. Regions crossed by a dense source taking hydrological network in the high mountains of the Congo to the south basin and the Nile Basin in the north. Soil mixture of hygroxéroferralsols and hygroferrisols very poor red earth. Rainfall: 1100-1400 mm / year Temperature: 18-21 ° C / year. 3 to 4 months of dry season (July-September).

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