Red beet
📍 Cape VerdeClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
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 .
Where Red beet grows in Cape Verde
Semi-arid areas and sub-humid medium-low altitude
Located between 400-500 meters above sea level with an inter-annual rainfall of 400-600 mm. Agricultural zones with wide valleys and plateaus descendants or wetlands and sub-humid altitude and which stretch towards the sea water salinity problems and soil on the grounds of the area litorale
Semiarid areas Low - Medium altitude
Located between 200-400 m with an inter-annual rainfall of 200-400 mm. marginal areas for agriculture in rainfed (subsistence during the years of good rainfall) The benefits valleys ficient of the influence of sub-humid areas, wet altitude for charging as springs and aquifers (well / borehole It are low altitude 0-400 m altitude valleys and valleys> 500 m. areas exposed to winds
Sub-humid areas, wet low-medium altitude
Altitude: 600-1000m
arid lowlands
desert character areas ettend litoral at 200 m above sea level and has an annual rainfall <200 mm. The often poor soils, are busy with grazing Large surfaces Maio and Boa Vista are occupied by sand dunes supermarkets in Maio and Boa Vista are occupied by sand dunes Presence of natural pools for good retention / infiltration of water superficial flow. strong winds
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