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(wheat) is grown fairly extensively in the SE. lowveld of Rhodesia. In Zambia it is cultivated on a small scale (1969 c. 250 acres) by a few commercial producers and Government sponsored enterprise. In the same year c. 1000 acres were grown as a winter crop under irrigation in Botswana. The cultivation of wheat in Mozambique goes back a long time and quite a number of varieties are well established |
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| Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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| Literature: |
Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 71. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 111. |
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