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Smallholder farmers use trees to fertilize soils & extra income

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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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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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