Farmers growing traditional crops like maize side by side with legumes are recording more than double increase in yields and cutting down on fertilizer spend as legumes fertilize the soils at 20 percent more than synthetic fertilizers. While farmers have long intercropped legumes like beans, cowpeas, groundnuts and pigeon peas with maize and millet, it …
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By George Munene Latia Agribusiness Centre in Isinya has unveiled East Africa’s first Agrivoltaic farm– a farming method that grows crops underneath solar panels. The innovative agricultural practice facilitates farming under limited land, renewable energy generation and can significantly improve the productivity of crops because the shade provided by the panel arrays reduces heat stress …
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Sallholder farmers in Kenya are embracing planting trees that do not compete with crops for nutrients a venture that is paying off with some of the trees even fertilizing the soils while offering the farmers extra income. The practice known as agroforestry has been championed by government and other agricultural institutions as having returned impressive …
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Weeds tell farmers the kind of soils they have and crops to grow on them Farmers can easily tell the type of soils in their farms by simply observing the type of weeds that grow in it. This is a cost -free and accurate method of soil sampling that can save farmers from hefty laboratory …
Farmers must regularly test their soils to check for presence or absence of essential nutrients for appropriate action of realising high productivity. The testing, which is done by soil experts, would also guide a farmers on what to plant at a certain time. This is possible because the procedure identifies the available nutrients, which forming …
