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Grain

Wheat

📍 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
Mar
Harvest
Jul – Aug
Growing period
150 - 165 days
Seeding rate
110 - 120 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 Wheat 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).

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