![]() ![]() The wood is fired before the rains and in the first year planted with the African cereal finger millet (Eleusine coracana).Ĭ. Branches are cut over an area of varying size early in the dry season, and stacked to dry over a rough circle about a fifth to a tenth of the pollarded area. ![]() As a rule, entire trees are not felled, but are pollarded so that they can regenerate. ![]() Most of the traditional cropping in Luapula, as in the Bemba area to the east, is based on citemene, a system whereby crops are grown on the ashes of tree branches. In these areas registered ownership patterns are becoming prevalent.ī. The situation has already changed near the main townships, and there has long been a scarcity of land for cultivation in the Valley. Since land is generally prepared by hand, one ulupwa cannot take on a very large area in this sense land has not been a limiting resource over large parts of the province. By tradition land in Luapula is not owned by individuals, but as in many other parts of Africa is allocated by the headman or headwoman of a village to people of either sex, according to need. ![]()
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