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Vegetable

Carrot

📍 Mozambique

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
Mar – Apr
Harvest
May – Jun
Growing period
80 - 100 days
Seeding rate
4 - 5 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 Carrot grows in Mozambique

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R1

The agroecological zone R1 is located in altitudes varying from 0-200m above the mean sea level. The average precipitation is of about 800mm/year lasting from November to March and the mean annual temperature is in between 20 ºC -25ºC. The main representative soils in this region are Ferralic Arenosols, Ferralic Lixisols, Eutric Leptsols and Euric Fluvisols.

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R10

Located in high hills where the altitudes are above 1200 meters above the mean sea level, the soils in the agroecological zone R10 are Rhodic Ferrasols, Eutric Leptsols and Ferric Lixisols. This region receives an annual rainfall of about 1200mm and the annual average temperature vary up to 22ºC.

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R2

The agroecological zone R2 is characterized by altitudes below 200m above the mean sea level. The dominant soil characteristics of the Agroecological zone R2 are Arenosols, Ferralic Arenosols and Chromic Luvisols. The annual average precipitation of the region is about 500-800mm and the temperatures vary from 24ºC-26ºC annual average.

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