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# The Weevils Were Not Invited to Share Your Harvest A Ugandan farmer harvests good maize, dries it and fills several ordinary sacks. The family celebrates because the difficult work appears finished. Three months later, the store sounds suspiciously busy.…
# Your Beans Cannot Fix Nitrogen by Holding a Committee Meeting—They Need the Right Rhizobia A Ugandan farmer plants soybean, groundnuts or beans and expects a strong crop. The seed germinates, the garden turns green and everything initially looks promising.…
A farmer watches a short video showing thousands of black soldier fly larvae eating organic waste. The video ends with bags of animal feed, rich-looking organic fertilizer and a smiling entrepreneur. Naturally, the farmer concludes: “This business is easy. I…
# Before You Buy Another Bag of Fertilizer, Ask Your Soil What It Actually Needs A farmer sees yellow leaves and immediately concludes, “This crop needs fertilizer.” The agrodealer recommends one product. A neighbour recommends another. An uncle who last…
# Do Not Let the African Bollworm Turn Your Crop into a Free Buffet The tomato crop is flowering nicely. The maize is forming ears. The cotton plants are developing bolls. The farmer walks through the field, sees promising growth…
# Do Not Let a Dry Spell Dismiss Your Young Trees—Keep Moisture Near the Roots The seedlings have been purchased. The holes have been prepared. Planting has finished just as the clouds gather like serious people attending a meeting. Then…
# Your Tomato Leaves Should Not Become Free Accommodation for Tuta Absoluta A tomato farmer can prepare land properly, transplant vigorous seedlings, stake the crop and begin calculating the expected harvest. Then small pale patches and winding mines appear inside…
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Your Fertilizer May Be Working Hard in the Wrong Soil—Check the Acidity!
# Your Legume Can Make Its Own Nitrogen—But It Needs the Right Partner A soybean farmer may prepare the land carefully, buy good seed, plant on time and still watch the crop remain pale and weak. Sometimes the problem is…