Category Agronomy

PICS BAGS at Agape Innovations.

# 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.…

Rhizobia and Nitrogen fixing – Agape Innovations

# 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.…

Cotton Boll Worm. Helicoverpa Amigera

# 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…

FRUIT FLY SOLUTION

# 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…

PICS Bags

# Do Not Feed Weevils After Harvest—Store Your Grain in PICS Bags A farmer can spend months preparing land, planting, weeding, chasing birds and praying for rain. Then, after harvesting, a small army of weevils enters the store without paying…

Agricultural lime and your crops

# Your Fertilizer Is Not Lazy—Your Soil May Have Locked the Door! A farmer may buy quality seed, apply fertilizer faithfully and even speak encouraging words to the crops every morning—yet the garden continues behaving as if it has resigned…