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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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Pig rearing helps Kakamega farmer break down organic waste to manure

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A Ka­mega County farmer has cut or­ganic fer­til­iser costs in maize pro­duc­tion by rear­ing three pigs, which are help­ing him break down or­ganic waste into ma­nure. Wyc­liffe Ochango said con­vert­ing or­ganic waste into ma­nure by nor­mal de­com­pos­i­tion takes months, but the pigs are ‘cata­lys­ing’ the pro­cess. “In­stead of wait­ing for one to three months for …

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