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Eggplant

📍 Mauritania

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
90 - 120 days
Seeding rate
0.3 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 Eggplant grows in Mauritania

dry arid

Sahelian Zone

Between southern boundary arid and northern boundary river area. Rainfall = 200-400 mm. Temperature = 15 to 45 ° C depending on the seasons. Seasons = Wintering (rainy season) from June to September dry season (October to May). = brown soil and sandy dunes with a low water retention and a low organic matter content; depressions dune silty clay; appearance dunes following the degradation of vegetation (especially western area)

other

Zone River

Strip along lefleuve Senegal Moughataa (Department) Keur Macène (Southwest Trarza) in Gouraye (South East Guidimakha). = 350-450mm rainfall. Temperature = 15-45 ° C depending on the seasons. = Wintering seasons (rainy season) from June to September and dry season (October to May). Soils = clayey or silty (Hydromorphic); Brown and sandy (low water retention)

dry arid

arid Zone

It extends from the north to the isohyet 150 mm without the marine band and covers nearly 80% of the national territory. Rainfall = <100 mm per year, rarely reaches 150 mm in the northern parts of Assaba and Hodhs. = Wintering seasons (rainy season from July to September) and dry season from October to June Temperature = 10 to 47 ° c. = gross soil desert soils (ablation and intake) dominated by sand ergs. Relative humidity = 28-43%. Water Resources = dune and alluvial aquifers wadis

other

maritime area

It covers a narrow coastal strip (50 km wide) and extends from Nouadhibou to the mouth of the Senegal River. Seasons: rainy from August to September and saisonsèche (October-July) .Températures = 10-35 ° C. Rainfall = 0-50 mm, rarely reaches 100 mm despite the rain and dew winter (December-January). sSols = sandy halomorphic

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