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iCow teaches experts how to raise all yields through soil care: my personal journey

The iCow Soil Advocacy programme is pursuing the change of farming practices by equipping agronomists and trainers in how to restore soil to lift smallholders’ yields. As a reporter with a background in agriculture, I enrolled in the programme to gain firsthand insight—and it turned out to be transformative. I first learned about the programme

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Revolutionary rat-stopping bags protect farmers from main maize thieves  

Maize storage bag manufacturers are helping farmers avoid half of after-harvest losses using revolutionary rodent-repelling bags that keep off the two main thieves of stored grains;  insects, and rats. In Kenya’s main maize-growing regions, rodents were second to small insects as the main causes of farmer losses after harvest. The country loses an estimated half

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African farmers return rapidly declining soil potassium with ancient ash-in-pot technology

Farmers are turning to an ancient technology to return potassium to their soil on evidence that they are losing 10 per cent of the mineral which is vital to plant growth after each harvest. Potassium being used up far quicker than it can be returned to the soil presents Africa’s agriculture with a disaster in

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