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Kenyan Soils Rejuvenated by Mucuna Bean’s Nitrogen Fixation

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A unique bean variety is helping fertilize degraded soils due to its nitrogen-fixing traits. Mucuna beans are capable of fixing 150kgs of nitrogen for every hectare. Kenyan soils are currently ranked amongst the worst due to exploitation and overuse of conventional fertilizers. Soil Regeneration Through Abundant Organic Matter: Mucuna not only fixes nitrogen but also …

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Legume inter-cropping doubles traditional crop performance

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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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Legumes improve crop yield by 43% in Africa, scientists prove

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Diversified legume cropping systems have been shown to enhance main crop yield (e.g., rice, wheat, maize) in Africa by 43 per cent on average with reduced inputs and environmental impacts. Legumes increase yields, especially in low-input regions such as Africa and in low-input conditions like in organic farming. By comparison, the average gain observed in …

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Fertiliser Crisis: Making compost manure as alternative to store-bought fertilisers

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By George Munene With the price of a 50Kg bag of fertiliser set to more than double from its price last year to a historic Sh 7,000, we will be highlighting alternatives/ supplements farmers can use to enrich their soils. Compost manure is perhaps the easiest to make and complete organic alternative to synthetic fertilisers. …

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