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# 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…
Let Agape Soil Testing Tell You What the Field Actually Needs
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…
# Rain Has No Appointment Book—Help Your Soil Hold Water with Agape Crop Hydrogel A Ugandan farmer may plant coffee seedlings on Monday, receive a promising shower on Tuesday and spend the next two weeks looking at the sky as…
A Ugandan farmer may plant coffee seedlings on Monday, receive a promising shower on Tuesday and spend the next two weeks looking at the sky as if the clouds owe him money. When rainfall becomes irregular, newly planted crops can…
# Fruit Flies Are Small—but Their Appetite Has No Respect for Your Investment! A mango farmer may spend months pruning trees, controlling diseases, feeding the orchard and waiting patiently for fruit. Then, just as the mangoes begin looking ready for…