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Egg eating and cannibalism are rampant in nutritionally deficient birds, which are forced to peck on others or on these shelled produce for nourishment. Mustard seed concoction is one of the most efficient ways of stopping chickens from eating eggs, a vice that causes losses to many farmers. A farmer can prick a small hole …

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Two tools developed by the Kenya Agricultultural and Livestock Research Organization and Triple W Engineering to enable early planting for smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid lands. One is meant for vertisols and the other is for lighter red soils. Many smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid areas cannot plant on most soils until after …

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Smallholder farmers can control cattle calves’ diarrhea, a non-responsive disease to treatment by observing hygiene, deworming and laboratory diagnosis. Cattle owners often treat diarrhoea of in-house calves with antibiotics. The calves however sometimes do not recover and the diarrhoea continues leading to death. Some vegetation species e.g. Duosperma eremophilum are associated with worms. Further, pastoralists associate diarrhea …

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A study by the African Insect Science for Food and Health has established that crop pollination by bees increases farm yields by 70 per cent. While other pollinators tend to be selective, honey bees are found to be generally cross-cutting. Most small-scale farmers in East Africa have a limited understanding of the economic benefits of …

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