Agriculture Report - Mangrove Trees Fight Poverty in Eritrean Village

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VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in English. Gordon Sato traveled to Eritrea for the first in 1985. The Japanese-American cell biologist wanted to see he could do to help the people in their for independence from Ethiopia. On his trip, he noticed camels were eating the leaves of mangrove trees growing the coast. He planted more mangroves so they could used to feed livestock. But at first, all the trees died. Then Gordon Sato observed that mangrove trees grew naturally where there was fresh water some of time. The fresh water provided minerals that salt water . Gordon Sato found a way to provide these minerals. put nitrogen, phosphorous and iron into small plastic bags the base of each tree. Holes in the bags the minerals into the soil over time. The women the village of Hargigo started to feed the leaves the mangroves to their sheep and goats. But the were not producing enough milk for their babies. Gordon asked the villagers to grind the remains of fish spread this fish paste on the leaves. This provided for the sheep and goats so they could produce milk. Today there are more than one million mangrove around the village. Gordon Sato has also started a garden in Mauritania to grow more mangrove trees. He , "You don't have to be brilliant to do useful ." All you have to have is moderate intelligence and , and you can make a contribution to this world." Sato called his work in Eritrea the Manzanar Project. name is meant to honor Japanese-Americans placed in the relocation camp in California during World War II. For Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti. (Adapted from a radio broadcast 18Dec2012)

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