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Theme: THE DEGRADATION OF WETLANDS AND ITS SOCIO ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS IN NDOP CENTRAL SUBDIVISION, NORTH WEST PROVINCE CAMEROON

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2.2.1.2. Rice cultivation and seasonal crop rotation practices
           
            Rice cultivation is mostly considered in this region as a cash crop since most farmers involved in its cultivation mostly do so for commercial purposes. Just like food crop cultivation, rice cultivation is an important cause of wetland degradation in Ndop Central Subdivision. This activity as earlier seen was introduced in the area as early as the late 1960s under the B.D.P.A. With the fall of the B.D.P.A, the U.N.V.D.A. was created in 1970 under decree No 70/DF/529 of 29/10/70. Looking at the plain as a favourable site for rice and food crop cultivation, the Societé d'Etude pour le developpement  de l'Africa (S.E.D.A) was engaged to carry out a feasibility study of the upper Nun valley. This was completed and submitted on 14th October 1977. Before submission, however, rice production in the plain had started as early as 1970, but after submission, the U.N.V.D.A launched a serious land development programme for rice cultivation by local farmers (U.N.V.D.A, 1991). Land development in this area meant the clearing away of the natural vegetation cover, tilling of the soil, creation of water canals, dykes and dams for water flow control (photo 8). Since the U.N.V.D.A. set out for large scale transformation, mechanized agricultural techniques were used e.g. the use of tractors, caterpillars, chain saws, rotovators, power tillers and several kinds of bulldozers (photo 9).
                                                                                                                                      

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