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# Agricultural Calendar
for the
# 2023 First Cropping Season
in the
# Monomodal, Bimodal and Highland Agro-Ecological Zones
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# Contents
GLOSSARY ... 3 SUMMARY ... 4 I. INTRODUCTION ... 5 I.I. Context and justification of activities ... 5 2. SUMMARY OF CLIMATE FORECASTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM MARCH TO MAY 2023 ... 7 3. THE MAIN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE AREAS OF INTEREST ... 9 4. CHRONOGRAM OF ACTIVITIES ... 10 4.1. Highlands Zone (West and North West Regions) ... 10 4.2. Monomodal Forest Zone (Littoral and South West regions) ... 13 4.3. Bimodal Rainfall Forest Zone (Centre, East and South regions) ... 16 ANNEX: PRODUCTION TEAM ... 19
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# GLOSSARY
Agricultural Calendar: Decision-making tool for agricultural activities. It presents the types of agricultural crops (Maize, cocoa, beans, etc.), the agricultural activities (soil/field preparing the, sowing, Maintenance, etc.) in a given agro-ecological zone (Sudano-Sahelian, Guinea High Savannah, Highlands, bimodal rain forest and monomodal rain forest).
Climate: All meteorological elements and phenomena (temperature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, wind, etc.), as well as their dynamics in time and space (expressed in seasons) that characterize a given place or a specific geographical area over a long period (at least 30 years according to the WMO).
La Niña is a cold marine current, an unusual climate phenomenon that usually occurs every 2 to 7 years in the equatorial Pacific and especially along the coast of Latin America. It is characterized by the upwelling of oceanic waters from the depth to the surface. These waters are usually highly nutrient-rich. It affects the global circulation of the atmosphere, and its consequences are worldwide: modification of wind patterns, rainfall, the appearance of extreme climate events such as floods, extreme droughts, etc.).
El Niño is a warm ocean current (opposite La Niña), characterized by an increase in ocean surface temperature. It is a large-scale oceanic phenomenon that takes place in the equatorial Pacific, with a periodicity of 2 to 5 years. It affects the large-scale global circulation of the atmosphere and the wind regime. El Niño is the warm phase of the coupled ocean/atmosphere phenomenon known as ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).
Climate Variability: Variations of meteorological parameters (temperature, rainfall, etc.) around an average on seasonal and interannual time scales in a given region.
Climate Change: also known as climate disruption, it corresponds to a sustained change (from a decade to a million years) in the statistical parameters (average parameters, variability, etc.) of the earth's global climate or its various regional climates. These changes may be due to processes intrinsic to the earth, to external influences or more recently to human activities.
Agro-Ecological Zone: A geographical unit defined in terms of climate, geomorphology and soils, and/or vegetation cover and having a specific range of potentials and constraints for land use. Cameroon counts five (Sudano-Sahelian; Guinea High Savannah; Bimodal Rainforest; Highlands; Monomodal Rainforest).
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